ADVENT24/14_DEC24

 Mistigram: for this date last year, AdeptApril, SysOp of Storm BBS, drew this #HerrnhuterAdventsstern or #MoravianStar, a 26-pointed star part of German Christmas festivities.  It was included in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/13_DEC24

 Mistigram: this illustration of an unforgettable, impossible moment from #MrBean's Christmas dinner was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  It also has a BBS door version, seen here live at Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD BBS at bbs.decafbad.com

ADVENT24/12_DEC24

 Mistigram: when they hang the mistletoe on the #NCC1701D, #GeordiLaForge finally has a good excuse to kiss the hologram of #LeahBrahms, as in the #STTNG S3E6, "Booby Trap". Darkman Almighty drew the moment for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

ADVENT24/11_DEC24

 Mistigram: this jolly outdoor #ChristmasTree was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. The executable calendar has a BBS door version, and here it is served up by Jerry Reed's A-Net system at a-net-online.lol

ADVENT24/10_DEC24

 Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, Moth drew this seasonal showdown between a cardinal and a blue jay over a frozen birdbath.  Demonstrating the calendar's availability as a BBS door, this display was captured from Funtopia BBS.

ADVENT24/09_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA shares with us this stark winter landscape, drawn for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. Both last and this year's editions of the calendar can function as BBS doors, and you can see it in effect at X-Bit BBS at https://x-bit.org/

ADVENT24/08_DEC24

 

Mistigram: The Green Herring drew this dancing polar bear rocking the disco carols (Boney M for sure!) for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated live on BlaZZZe's BBS The Penalty Box at thepenaltybox.org

ADVENT24/07_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA drew this anguished #snowman, melting in unimaginable agony, for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated live on Martin Kazmaier's Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net

ADVENT24/06_DEC24

Mistigram: Cthulu drew Batman's nemesis #TheJoker (bowdlerizing 'Jingle Bells'), from the Nov 1992 second episode of #BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  We found it as a BBS door on the web board at https://angstridden.net/

 

ADVENT24/05_DEC24

 Mistigram: This rooftop portrait of #Sinterklaas was drawn by ENDOOM artist Peccatummihzamiz for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated on Paulie's bustling system at http://20forbeers.com:1339/

ADVENT24/04_DEC24

 Mistigram: This ominous nighttime portrait of #Krampus was drawn by The Green Herring for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar, which saw a forked release as a BBS door... here it is demonstrated on Amessyroom's system Too Lazy at https://toolazy.synchro.net/

ADVENT24/03_DEC24

 Mistigram: this chilly landscape was drawn by LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. The calendar saw a forked release as a BBS door, and here it is demonstrated on Codefenix's system Constructive Chaos at https://conchaos.synchro.net/

Ask your SysOp to host ADVENT25 on your favorite BBS and we will showcase it here!

ADVENT24/02_DEC24

 Mistigram: Frozen's Olaf isn't the only snowman interested in warm summertime pursuits! This screen for today's Dec 2nd date (at bottom right) was drawn by Moth for last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. (We have new art as well as the old for the ADVENT25 calendar, but you have to go open those little doors yourself... or wait a year for us to post them.)

The program also has a BBS door version, and one place you can see the calendar in action is, as demonstrated, on @_n1tr0n's "Hold Fast" BBS at https://holdfastbbs.ca/ (Let us know if you host it on _your_ BBS and we will post a screen shot from there!)

ADVENT24/01_DEC24

 Mistigram: last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar kicked off on Dec 1st with this incredible macabre @littlebitspace illustration of #UncleSam hyping up the crowd's patriotic involvement in festive seasonal cheer.

ADVENT25 FILE_ID

Mistigram: introducing ADVENT25, our third annual #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.  Enclosed is an executable program, and every day this month up to Dec 25th it will display that new date's illustration and allow you to view the previous screens.  Andyh's MS-DOS executable can be run via 16colo.rs or in DOSbox, and j0hnny a1pha's BBS door fork will allow you to have the daily screens displayed via participating bulletin board services.

The #ASCIIart cat in the FILE_ID artwork is by The Green Herring, whose work you will be seeing a lot of in this collection!

MIST-30/ILLARTERATE_MRZERO

 Mistigram: this fauvist portrait of #MrZero, the announcer from the #FZero racing games, was drawn by @illarterate and won 1st place in the Nova 2024 demoparty's #Teletext compo. It was also included a year ago in the MIST-30 30th anniversary celebration artpack collection.

MIST-30/MOZZ-NIGHT-MOON

 Mistigram: this striking nighttime #textmode art landscape (#ASCIIart? #ANSIart? There's a little Xbin character remapping going on) was drawn by Mozz and included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection.

MIST-30/THE_WAR_ON_XMAS-WELL_DRESSED_GHOST

 Mistigram: this piece, TheWarOnXmas' amazing #ASCIIart remix of AFlamingoCup's incredible "Well-Dressed Ghost" pixelart piece from MIST1020 four years earlier, was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection, one of an awesome handful of updates and revisitations to worthwhile works lurking in our extensive back catalogue.

MIST-30/DAROKIN-ANSIARTLOVE

 Mistigram: from last year's MIST-30 artpack collection, celebrating 30 years since the establishment of our (now vintage) computer art community, here's a lovely #ASCIIart logo by our guest @darokin ironically celebrating #ANSIart. (Hey, we like to mix it up, too!)

MIST1025/VILER-TDC23c

 Mistigram: and here's an #ANSIart portrait of actress #SydneySweeney in promotion of the 23rd installment of the #TotalDOSCollection, as drawn by VileR. She's still in the news starring in Christy, but the illustration is a little "Big Blue" wordplay throwback to her American Eagle "great jeans" ad earlier this year. This piece was part of a larger scroller that appeared in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/LITTLEBITSPACE-ASCII-HEAD

 Mistigram: this elegant #textmode #skull, given rather more texture through use of a remapped #ASCIIart font than the ANSI bonehead it appeared alongside in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection, is of course the handiwork of @littlebitspace.

MIST1025/ZII-WIZA

 Mistigram: Hocus pocus!  Artscene veteran @zeusii drew these #ANSIart takes on a magical wizard for the Katzenpost Post Quantum Mix Network (Revolutionary post-quantum packet switching anonymous communication!)  It was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/BLIPPYPIXEL-ALCHEMIST

 Mistigram: this animated #BBCMicro high resolution graphics #pixelart loop of an #alchemist surrounded by his bubbling kit was drawn by @blippypixel and included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/LITTLEBITSPACE-DANSE_MACABRE

Mistigram: Bystanders observing this gnarly #sk8r dude might be moved to remark: siiiick! No: in fact, he is completely deceased! But not even death can keep a wicked shredder down. This monochrome #ANSIart #skeleton, titled #DanseMacabre, is the handiwork of @littlebitspace, and was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/MC_FRESHER-DHGZDFH

 Mistigram: In case you were considering gambling with the fate of your eternal soul, MC Fresher drew us this endless animated UTF-8 GIF animation loop of a hapless stickman being tormented eternally in flaming perdition. This piece was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/MM-COWBOY

 

Mistigram: this gaunt steed may only represent a hacker conveying himself through cyberspace (hence the ones and zeroes, and the accents in terminal green), but we felt that @mavenmob's #ANSIart scene here was creepy enough to warrant inclusion in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection. (Isn't having your private files rifled through by strangers scary enough?)

MIST1025/GRYMMJACK-FRANKENSTEIN_CART

 Mistigram: long caught up in development hell, @grymmjack's #Atari2600 video game adaptation of #Frankenstein finally saw release in tandem with Guillermo del Toro's Netflix film of the same name. (OK no, but its cover art mock-up was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection!)

MIST1025/AXB-DRACULA

 Mistigram: Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!  This #blockASCII / #ANSIart portrait of #BelaLugosi in Universal's 1931 film adaptation of #Dracula was drawn by @axb and included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/HORSENBURGER-NIGHTMARE

 Mistigram: as we approach the sweet spot between Halloween and Christmas, this silhouetted #teletext screen by @horsenburger, depicting a tender moment in #theNightmareBeforeChristmas between Sally and #JackSkellington (on a spooky hill that is actually #OogieBoogie) straddles both realms handily. It was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1025/NI-CTVCT

 

Mistigram: @_n1tr0n, who graciously put together the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection in my stead, drew for it this #ANSIart portrait of Sesame Street's #CountVonCount, a promo for @sixteen_colors (16! 16 colors! Ah ah ah ah!) in homage to an endless parade of William Gibson-loving Count Zeroes in the digital underground of the '90s.

MIST1025/HORSENBURGER-CANDYMAN

Mistigram: this #teletext portrait of the late #TonyTodd as #Candyman was drawn by @Horsenburger and included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1023/MIST1023.NFO

 Mistigram: @2stoned kindly carved us a #jackolantern with his unfortunately stained machete. (That rust just won't come out!) This #ANSIart piece was used as an infofile header in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago.

MIST1022/ATONALOSPREY-SAMHAIN

 Mistigram: if you like getting all dressed up for pagan rites, why not rock this #Samhain headdress? This #monochrome #teletext illustration was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.

MIST1024/PIZZATOE-JACKEY-SCREAMING_SKULL

 Mistigram: a synthesis of #ANSIart and #ASCIIart, all you need to know about this #skull is that it's all scream. Is that curly hair or are its soupy brains being expelled from its cranium under high pressure in an evaporated form? It was drawn as a creepy guest appearance by our main liaison with the new Pizzatoe computer art community, Jackey, and was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago.

MIST1025/VILER-TDC23b

 Mistodon: VileR taps the iconography of vintage MS-DOS video games to celebrate annual updates to the #TotalDOSCollection.  Here he shows #ManiacMansion and #DayOfTheTentacle's #DoctorFred Edison cooking up some software, mad science-style.  This piece, an excerpt of a larger #ANSIart scroller, was included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1024/HORSENBURGER-BEETLEJUICE-BOB

 Mistigram: this #teletext portrait of #Bob the Shrinker (#shrunkenhead person) from last year's #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice was drawn by @horsenburger and included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

MIST1024/US-KILLER_TOMATOES

 Mistigram: Originally intended as vegetarian menu art for the IMBIBE01 food-themed e-mag, Cthulu adapted the poster to the 1978 B-movie #AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes to #ANSIart with help from LDA and Moth. It was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack released one year ago.

MIST1021/BNJMNBRGMN-CTHULHU

 Mistigram: this #PETSCII portrait of #HPLovecraft's preeminent Great Old One, #Cthulhu (who in his house at R'lyeh waits dreaming) was drawn by bnjmnbrgmn aka Bema. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago.

MIST1024/PIZZATOE-MOMO-HALLOWEEN_SORCERESS_UNDER_THE_MOON

 Mistigram: this witchy #ANSIart cutie, surrounded by tiny details (the bats traversing the full moon, the flaming jack 'o lantern in her hand!) was drawn by Momo of the @pizzatoe computer art crew as a guest appearance in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

MIST1024/LITTLEBITSPACE-THE_LAST_GAMBIT

 Mistigram: this #PETSCII illustration by @littlebitspace, 'The Last Gambit', presents an existential scene, all of us kings in our games of #chess, all doomed to #checkmate. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago.

MIST1023/ILLARTERATE-GHOSTBOX

 Mistigram: What do you get for someone whose birthday is on Halloween? This @illarterate screen, 'Ghost in a Box', placed 2nd in the @flashparty #teletext compo two years ago and was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection also released two years ago.

MIST1024/PIZZATOE-AMY-QING_ZOMBIE

 Mistigram: this #ASCIIart illustration of a #jiangshi or 'hopping vampire' of Chinese folklore (and beloved of Hong Kong cinema) was a guest appearance by Amy of the Pizzatoe computer art crew. It was included in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection, resplendent in its Qing dynasty traditional garb. There's a rumour about that @Pizzatoe may soon be dropping their first artpack, so we're hoping to schedule these posts to roughly coincide with their debut.

E0-BK#32.ANS

 Mistigram: on top of everything else going on, we're hosting another installment of the Blender compo this weekend, where artists combine (or blend) three assigned topics into a harmonized composition. This #ANSIart specimen, by Enzo of Glue, was drawn 26 years ago, depicting Pac-Man performing a sacrifice on Mt. Olympus. We run the compo in channel #blender on the EFNet IRC -- broad strokes details at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html

MIST1022/DW-MYERS

 Mistigram: I don't know where DW of Dark Systems BBS sourced the pattern from, but he adapted it into this #ANSIart illustration of #Halloween killer #MichaelMyers. This screen was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.

MIST1121/UGLIFRUIT-FAWKES

 Mistigram: Remember remember... this #teletext portrait of a man in a #GuyFawkes mask (almost assuredly derived from #DavidLloyd's work in #VForVendetta) was drawn by @uglifruit and included in the MIST1121 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

MIST1025/LITTLEBITSPACE-SKELETEXT

 

MIST1023/US-FLASHPARTY-PUZZLE_CUBE

 Mistigram: this portrait of #Hellraiser's Cenobite #Pinhead, titled "Solve the Cube", was drawn by @Polyducks and El Hombre Lombre for the @flashparty.ar demoparty (coming up again in a bit over a week), whose #ANSIart compo it took second prize in. It was also included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection. "We have such sights to demo for you"