Straying from the status quo was a delicate gambit in the competitive underground computer artscene, where anything other than conformity to established standards would be considered failure. And when the standards were to plaster artpacks with anatomically impossible babes in sprayed-on costumes, how could one beat them at their own game? By applying reductio ad absurdum: “More is better, right?”
This piece of ANSI art was drawn by animation buff, Hallucigenia founder (13 paltry months down the road) and Dreams of Dark, Enchanted Lizards SysOp Etana, helping Mist to distinguish itself among the big fish in Dark Illustrated, asserting ourselves in the culmination of our Mistigris World Tour in May of 1997.
Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 17, 2016 at 12:42pm UTC
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