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The image is an ASCII-art style newspaper title page. White text on dark background. It shows several articles, headlines, some (fake) advertisements, and graphical elements of a typical 20th century newspaper. It includes various puns, little scenes, hidden or less obvious messages and a wimmelbild feeling that is, unfortunately, hard to replicate in a pure description. Here’s the content: Title: The Road to Fascism, July '26 edition Subtitle: A unicoded zinematic take on —— MANUS PASSIM IACTAT —— Because keeping a diary would be presumptuous. The text snippets and articles from top left to bottom right: “I burn woods for polymoney.” - IGNITING WEALTH DISCLOSURE ODYSSEY: Summer flick has remnant army of journos fighting for FOIA. Top Story: BLISS Passes, Insider Trading as-a-service D.C. · A pleasant murmor, a comfy hum, a warm rustle went through the capital as the adminnistration announced the installment of the aptly named BLISS legislation – Bill for Legalization of Insider Tradin

My uni-coded zine-matic take on [gestures wildly] (because keeping a diary would be presumptuous): The Road to Fascism, July ’26 edition#AsciiArt #PixelArt #pol…

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Computer art by Dave Hartmann in 1992 shows an ANSI art caricature of President George H.W. Bush sitting in the Oval Office with his finger pointing up. Beside him stylized words that say "Not gonna raise taxes. Not gonna do it!"
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Still, political ANSI art was more of an exception in the early 1990s. PD artists were more likely to be inspired by pop culture or the theme of a particular BB…

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This collage shows characters from five of Don Lokke's ANSI art "telecomics" series: "Mack the Mouse," "Talking Heads," "Rainbow," "Reggie the Rattler," and "Yellow Bird."

Lokke gave away his "Mack the Mouse" telecomics for free, hoping to entice BBS sysops to pay for access to his Online Publishing business. Subscribers could dow…

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"Mack the Mouse" telecomic shows a big mouse standing. Behind him, two people's heads stick up out of the ground. A sign says "The Clinton win is like Groundhog Day. Democrats keep popping up to see if they see their shadow!"
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I just added ~140 ANSI "telecomic" strips to the 16colors archive.https://16colo.rs/artist/don+lokke+jrThese #ANSIart #textmode political cartoons were created …

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