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Do you remember BBSes or ANSI art? Interested in comics or obscure bits of history?Please check out my profile of ANSI artist Eerie, a talented teenager in Queb…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
A new year, a new fit! I decided to fully rock that punky dress I was wearing months ago and now you'll be seeing it more often, starting with the front page of…
Posted by TheGreenHerring
ANSI artist Eerie is the subject of my latest in-depth #retrocomputing profile:https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and…
Posted by Kirkman@mastodon.social
"Calvin and Hobbes" was a major influence and subject for ANSI artists of the 1990s. https://16colo.rs/tags/content/calvinThe characters were so funny, so well-…
Posted by Kirkman@mastodon.social
Mistodon: this time last year, as we dropped our MIST-30 30th anniversary collection, our colleagues in @pizzatoe were celebrating along with us, sketching this…
Posted by mistfunk
PART 3 HAS DROPPED!In 1994, a teenager in Quebec wanted to make his mark in the underground scene. One of many things he tried: creating a profane, stoned, gray…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
My art summary for 2025! This year, I had to navigate a new chapter of my life, and in the process, I learned I'm much more capable of classic #PixelArt than I …
Posted by TheGreenHerring
🤔 ❓Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …What was “ANSI art”? What was a “bulletin board”? Were there ANSI comics? Heck, how do you even …
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
MIST1225/ZII-NATS#ANSIArt #HyperPolice #MIST1225 #NatsukiSasahara #ShuratoSHeavenlySphere #ZeusII
Posted by mistfunk
Check out this 2nd hand #comics shop find from 1986! Rich Mrozek and Jim Mc Greal, the #Chicago based team behind VECTOR, published by Now Comics, combined #ANS…
Posted by thunderfree@mstdn.social
One book claimed "Inspector Dangerfuck" by ANSI artist Eerie was "the first known comic on the internet." But who was Eerie? What was "Inspector Dangerfuck?" Wa…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
🤷♂️ "Very little is readily available"🤷♀️ "I couldn't find much"🤷♂️ "Information is scarce and unreliable at best"For nearly 20 years, writers have been a…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Mistodon: this jolly radiology image by @littlebitspace was shown when departing the ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar BBS door. We have now shown its entire sl…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one last Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gif…
Posted by mistfunk
Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book? Probably not. But there's som…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Mistigram: Cthulu found this badass image, Bruce Timm's cover artwork to Dec 1994's Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, while cruising for ADVENT25 subjects..…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: far from being localised entirely within anyone's kitchen, @codefenix of Constructive Chaos BBS drew this striking illustration of the #AuroraBorealis…
Posted by mistfunk
The 23rd day of the 2025 #ANSIArt Advent calendar from @mistfunk marked my final entry in the calendar, a nest of snow rabbits about to become one rabbit larger…
Posted by TheGreenHerring
Mistodon: Last chance to get your doomscrolling quota for the rest of the year out of the way before, like Santa, you tamp it all down and kick the holidays int…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: "I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel." This aliena…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: for the ANSI fans(i), the festive new MIST1225 artpack collection also includes a handful of #ANSIart screens, here parcelled out to fill nine cells o…
Posted by mistfunk
MIST1225 FILE_IDMistigram: because it seems that ADVENT25 somehow just wasn’t enough to exorcise our surplus of holiday spirit, we share with you the new music-…
Posted by mistfunk