MIST0426/ATONALOSPREY-PAUL_GOBLE-THE_GIRL_WHO_LOVED_WILD_HORSES

 Mistigram: this #teletext illustration, drawn by @atonalosprey, adapts a scene from #PaulGoble's award-winning 1978 children's book #TheGirlWhoLovedWildHorses. This screen was included in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/ZII-MLMR

 Mistigram: to you, this may just look like an #ANSIart landscape illustration. But if you've read #PeterFHamilton's 2004 SF novel #PandorasStar, kicking off his #CommonwealthSaga, you may recognize the creation of the powerful #MorningStarMountain hivemind here. This piece was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-WILLARD_S_BAIN-INFORMED_SOURCES-DAY_EAST_RECEIVED

 Mistigram: after seeing an intriguing scan of this early text art illustration from #WillardSBain's 1967 #InformedSources: Day East Received, Cthulu was moved to manually reproduce it as #ASCIIart and included it in last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection. The volume is patterned after all-caps teletype transmission by wire news services, and specifically "THE SKELETON OF THE BOOK IS MODELLED, SIGNIFICANTLY, ON THE AP REPORT FOR THE THREE DAYS FOLLOWING PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION."

MIST0426/MOZZ-BEATRIX_POTTER-PETER-RABBIT

 Mistigram: this #ASCIIart adaptation of cover art to #BeatrixPotter's 1901 children's book #TheTaleOfPeterRabbit was drawn by Mozz and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-NICK_MONTFORT-TWISTY_LITTLE_PASSAGES

 

Mistigram: looking for representation from the non-fiction field for last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu opted to make an #ANSIart adaptation of the maze-like cover art to #NickMontfort's 2005 history of the #textadventure computer game genre, #TwistyLittlePassages.

MIST0426/TELETEXTR-WILLIAM_BUTLER_YEATS-THE_SECOND_COMING

 Mistigram: this typographical setting of an excerpt from #WilliamButlerYeats' 1919 poem #TheSecondComing was made in #teletext by TeletextR and included in last month's new, literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0523/HORSENBURGER-OBI-WANB

 Mistigram: This #teletext portrait of #AlecGuinness as #ObiWanKenobi was drawn by @horsenburger and included in the science fiction-themed MIST0523 artpack collection released three years ago.  #MayThe4thBeWithYou

MIST0524/BLIPPYPIXEL-USE

 Mistigram: this animated #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen of #Yoda using The Force to levitate Luke Skywalker's #XWing out of the #Dagobah swamp in the #EmpireStrikesBack was drawn by @blippypixel and included in the science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection released two years ago. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

MIST0525/MIST0525.NFO

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor's #K2SO was drawn by Zeus II for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!T

MIST0426/MOTH-MARK_Z_DANIELEWSKI-HOUSE_OF_LEAVES

 Mistigram: this is an #ASCIIart interpretation of the cover art to the first edition of #MarkZDanielewski's 2000 Gothic postmodern novel #HouseOfLeaves, depicting architectural blueprints around a spiral staircase and compass, as interpreted by Moth. This piece was included in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-JOSE_SARAMAGO-BLINDNESS

 Mistigram: one of the first screens Cthulu started when the idea of doing a books-themed artpack came up (and also, after quite some turbulance, the very last one he finished), this adaptation of the typographical cover design to the 1999 Mariner Press edition of #JoseSaramago's #Blindness was included in last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection. (The artist thanks Yvonne for lending her copy so many years ago!)

MIST0226/JONINSCII-TREECYCLE

 Mistigram: the turning of the seasons is in full effect at the moment, aptly captured in this #ASCIIart animation by Joninscii! This piece was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/PICROTOXIN-BOTS2

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart personification of an IRC URL-previewing bot, navi, was drawn by Picrotoxin and included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.  Beep boop!

MIST0226/MOZZ-BUTTERFLIES

 Mistigram: There's a beautiful spring day going on outside so today we're going to share this butterfly riot (I was confident I had a hapax legomenon there but surprisingly no!) drawn in monochrome #ASCIIart by Mozz. It was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack, and if we'd been right-thinking it would have been the FILE_ID.DIZ for that collection!

MIST0226/LITTLEBITSPACE-CHA

 Mistigram: #cherryblossom season is sweeping through Japan as we speak, so there's no time like the present to share this #textart screen, drawn by @littlebitspace, celebrating a seasonal #tea service in the shadow of #Fujisan. It was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/US-CJ-LDA1

 Mistigram: LDA continued his campaign of drawing #ANSIart tributes to his Mistigris colleagues here in this celebration of ConsoleJockey, whose program we use to syndicate these Mistigram posts across several microblogging services. (The mutual appreciation society continued below, where ConsoleJockey drew a reciprocal tribute to LDA! But we only have so much screen space to work with here, so stay tuned.) This piece was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/AXB-LOGOS2

 Mistigram: if you ever wondered just what axb stood for, it's truth, justice, and ... oh wait, never mind, it's initials for Axel Barebones. And here the man is to remind us in #ASCIIart himself! This piece was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/ZII-GOLD

 Mistigram: This shiny #ANSIart advertisement for the Golden Temple BBS, reachable by connecting via telnet to bbs.iswix.com:6800, was drawn by @zeusii and included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/MOZZ-SOMEONE_TALKED

 Mistigram: are we still at war?  (Were we ever?)  I have no idea, but here's a classic 1942 propaganda piece, #SomeoneTalked by #FrederickSiebel (who went on to invent Mr. Clean), drawn in #ASCIIart by @mozz.  It was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0418/FORESTS_I_DON'T_REMEMBER-EASTER_THIEF

 Mistigram: One final silly April Fool's screen, mashing up a little #Easter into the heady mix, this #AcornElectron high resolution graphics screen was drawn by The Elk and included in the MIST0418 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

MIST0226/MM-VULNERABILITY

 Mistigram: Happy #Easter!  This #ANSIart portrait of #JesusChrist, titled Love is Vulnerability, was drawn by @mavenmob, winning 1st place in the @flashparty 2025 demoparty's extended text art compo.  It was also included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0117/KALCHA-MAD_TEA_PARTY

 Mistigram: a very merry unbirthday to you! While we're still in a nonsensical #AprilFools mentality, here's an exceedingly foolish scene of #AliceInWonderland's #MadHatterTeaParty, drawn in #ShiftJIS by @kalchano . It was included in the MIST0117 artpack collection released nine years ago!

MIST0418/SMELLARTERATE-RUBBER_CUP

 Mistigram: I expect that this stylish yet offbeat #teletext screen, like oodles of others, was drawn by @illarterate for inclusion in Rail Slave Games' now-shuttered computer game #SelfieSistersOfTheAmnioticLens. It was included in the nonsensical MIST0418 April Fool's artpack collection released eight years ago this month.

MIST0226/MOZZ-AURORA

 Mistigram: OMG, it's officially been spring for like ten days and we never officially kicked off the new season. Here -- we'll do it in style, with Mozz's monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of #AntonRaphaelMengs' ~1769 painting of #Aurora, the divine personification of the dawn. This piece was one of many by Mozz included in last month's unthemed new MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/KIRKMAN-X-OWL-ATASCII

 Mistigram: this nifty-galifty portrait (and logo!) of the puppet #XtheOwl from #MrRogersNeighborhood was drawn by Kirkman and placed 5th in the 2025 #ATASCII art compo of #textmode art for Atari 8-bit computers. It was also included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/ZII-DEDM1

 Mistigram: this spooky, Ringu-esque #ANSIart promo for #DeadModemSociety BBS was drawn by Zeus II and included in last month's unthemed new MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/MOZZ-FALL

 Mistigram: here Mozz has adapted to #ASCIIart a real-life tragedy, #FireEscapeCollapse, photographed by #StanleyForman, winning him the 1975 World Press Photo of the Year and 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Two-year-old Tiare Jones, top, only survived by landing on her 19-year-old godmother, Diana Bryant, who did not. This piece was included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/ZII-GNOM1

 Mistigram: this rather angular purple #ANSIart logo in promotion of Gemenon BBS was drawn by Zeus II and included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/KALCHA-25

 Mistigram: Not only is Kalcha from Japan, but doubling down, in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection he shared with us over two dozen Japanese #ukiyoe-style portraits, composed entirely from characters in the Japanese #ShiftJIS character set.

MIST0695/MA-BSUN1

 Mistigram: a regretful reprint, this #ANSIart promo for #BlackSunshine BBS was drawn by Mavrik and released in the MIST0695 artpack collection released 31 years ago.  It depicts the offbeat Image Comics hero #TheMaxx.  RIP to his creator #SamKieth.

MIST0226/MOZZ-KNIGHT

 Mistigram: this monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of #DanielRidgwayKnight's 1892 painting #TheWaterCarriers was drawn by Mozz and included in last month's new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/PICROTOXIN-BBB2

 Mistigram: this social media posting may be the only place you get to see this #ANSIart illustration of internetting while drunk (not recommended), drawn by Picrotoxin and included in last month's new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/A_MOUSE-OTTER

 Mistigram: this slippery character is an #otter, drawn in charming #ASCIIart by <3S (a_mouse) . It was included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/ZII-EXOG1

 Mistigram: this is a splash screen for a new, upcoming BBS door game titled #Exogenesis: After Earth, depicting new life entering the planet's atmosphere from the depths of space. It was drawn in #ANSIart, along with quite a few in-game illustrations, by Zeus II, and they were included as a colly in last month's new MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/MOZZ-CLOUDS

 Mistigram: there's often dramatic weather at this time of the year, and Mozz captures it handily in this colourful #ASCIIart adaptation of #AlbertBierstadt's ~1872 #beachscene. This piece was included in last month's new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0919/HORSENBURGER-MARIO-GOOMBA

 Mistigram: #Goomba / #Kuribo wants everyone to know that #Mar10 is overrated as a holiday.  (Perhaps instead consider National Mushroom Day, on Oct 15?)  This #teletext screen was drawn by @horsenburger and included in the MIST0919 artpack collection released seven years ago!

MIST0226/US-GRASSCII

 Mistigram: "#ascii in the grasscii", a small and slowly-growing seed of #ANSIart from our mistfunk networked Moebius server, is the handiwork of LDA, sassafras and Moth, emerging just a few weeks before spring officially kicks in. (Maybe it didn't confer with the groundhog.) It was included in the new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/LITTLEBITSPACE-JOUER_LE_ROLE

 Mistigram: this #PETSCII illustration, "Jouer le rôle" (play the role), is unmistakably from the desk of @littlebitspace, featuring a skeletal marionette dangling at rest between two artist's mannequins. It was included in the new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/MOZZ-BELLOWS_3

 Mistigram: definitely one of the biggest splashes made in the new MIST0226 artpack collection is the substantial body of #ASCIIart work, primarily figure studies, drawn by Mozz. This is perhaps the splashiest of them, an adaptation of #GeorgeBellows' 1924 #boxing painting #DempseyAndFirpo.

MIST0226/ZII-CONM5

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart #mainframe and its green terminal quietly ping from the bottom of the fallout shelter in the basement of Convolution BBS at convolutionbbs.org.  This #ANSIart screen was drawn by Zeus II and included in the new MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/AXB-WORLDPEACE

 Mistigram: I'm so, so sorry everyone.  I've been very busy, but maybe if I'd managed to get this #ASCIIart logo by @axb posted a few days ago things in the world might be very different right now.  This optimistic piece was included in the brand new MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226 ANSI art mosaic

 Mistigram: and because the love for #ANSIart speaks with a loud voice in the hearts of its fans, when we have a decent showing of it, as we do in the new MIST0226 artpack collection, we like to give a little overview sample taste of the range and scope of pieces featured, some whimsical, some grim, some cartoony and others more realistic, some promotional and others purely aesthetic in nature.

MIST0226 ASCII art mosaic

 Mistigram: here's a more in-depth look at some of the #ASCIIart styles represented in the new MIST0226 artpack collection, including works natural and fantastic, representative and typographical.

MIST0226 text art mosaic

 Mistigram: with the exception of a few pieces of computer music, nearly everything in the new, unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection that dropped last night is some form or another of #textart and #textmode art -- here is a sampling of specimens of #ASCIIart, #ANSIart, #ATASCII, #PETSCII and #ShiftJIS contained therein.

MIST0226 FILE_ID

 Mistigram: Late last night, we dropped our first artpack collection of 2026, MIST0226, an unthemed survey of work our artists had just been making on their own without our directing them to travel in the same direction.  You can browse it at @16colors.  (DIZ by CoaXCable.)

MIST0222/PIXELDUD-EUCLIDEAN

 Mistigram: this #ASCIIart #opticalillusion challenging Euclidean geometry was drawn by Pixeldud and included in the MIST0222 artpack collection released four years ago this month.