MIST1026/ATONALOSPREY-REPO_MAN

 Mistigram: A highway patrolman gets a retrettably experiential answer to his question "What you got in the trunk?" in this memorable moment from Alex Cox's 1984 #RepoMan, drawn in #teletext by @AtonalOsprey. This screen was included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

MIST1026/BLIPPYPIXEL-RUSH_HOUR

 Mistigram: this #BBCMicro high resolution screen (animated where .GIFs are accepted!), titled "Rush Hour", depicts a busy #witch going about her rounds on her zippy broomstick. It was drawn by @blippypixel and included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

MIST1026/ILLARTERATE-BAD4U

 Mistigram: this bad-to-the-bone #teletext screen was drawn by @illarterate in the style of da share z0ne posts. It was included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection. If it sucks... hit da bricks!!!!

MIST1026/CT-HEAD_VAMPIRE

 Mistigram: "I'm the head vampire!" "Mom?!" "I do have a life outside this house, you know." #MargeSimpson's climactic moment from 1993's #TreehouseOfHorror IV was adapted to #ANSIart by Cthulu and included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

MIST1026/CXC-FACE_OF_SAD_MASK

 Mistigram: this screen titled "Face of a sad mask", part Melpomene and part John Merrick, was drawn by CoaXCable. It won 4th place in the Multimatograf demoparty's #ANSIart compo six month ago, and was just included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

MIST1026/MOZZ-SUCCUBUS

 Mistigram: Mozz drew this monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of a 2014 painting of a #succubus by Italian painter Roberto Ferri. It was just included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection!

MIST1026/ZII-DSMC

 Mistigram: a badass memento mori commissioned with touches of Orthodox iconography as a tribute to a dying friend, this #ANSIart screen by Zeus II is about the Dead Spaceman Motorcycle Club.  It was included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection.

MIST1026/BLIPPYPIXEL-CREEPY_CRAWLIE

 Mistigram: this horrific centipede (viscerally revolting if you're on a platform that allows animated .GIFs), just cruising around in the dark of night in search of a nice warm accessible ear canal, was drawn by @blippypixel and included in the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection. Bleah!

TREK2022/TNG-PICARD

 Mistigram: the #ANSIart rendition is a little too small-scale to be a wholly flattering likeness, but I guarantee that the character meant more to artist Darkman Almighty than to virtually any of you out there.  This portrait of the late #PatrickStewart as #JeanLucPicard from #STTNG was included in the TREK2022 artpack collection.  Engage!

MIST1026 ANSI art mosaic

 Mistigram: the oldschool artscene heads are always concerned for a good #ANSIart showing in artpacks, so for the spooky new MIST1026 we put our own heads together and tried to cook up a wide range of creepy illustrations made of coloured textmode block characters.  Here are some specimens!  For a better look, browse the new pack through the 16colo.rs web gallery!

MIST1026 ASCII art mosaic

 Mistigram: a variety of #ASCIIart (block ASCII, Unicode) styles are on display in the creepy new MIST1026 artpack collection.  Here are some samplings to show the spooky scope demonstrated.  Browse it today at the 16colo.rs web gallery!

MIST1026 mosaic

 Mistigram: the new, spooky MIST1026 artpack collection features eerie creations in a variety of vintage computing formats, from #ANSIart to #ASCIIart to #teletext to #BBCMicro high resolution graphics.  Here are a few specimens to demonstrate the range of its charmingly pixelated horrors.  You can check it out today at the 16colo.rs web gallery!

MIST1026 FILE_ID

 Mistigram: the first of three #ASCIIart bats drawn by Mozz, this little nocturnal flying mammal is also the FILE_ID for the spooky new MIST1026 artpack collection, dropping just in time for us to get into a Halloweeny mood for this weekend. Check it out on the 16colo.rs web gallery!

MIST1024/US-KILLER_TOMATOES

 Mistigram: "Aaargh!..." With a little assistance from LDA and Moth, Cthulu drew this #ANSIart adaptation of the poster art to 1978's musical-comedy-horror movie #AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes, including a little nod to the original Mist WHQ BBS, #TheScreamingTomato. It was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released two years ago this month.

MIST1023/ILLARTERATE-GHOSTBOX

 Mistigram: this jolly screen, depicting the latest Halloween accessory you can order by mail -- #Ghost-in-a-box! -- was drawn by @illarterate and placed 2nd in @flashparty.ar 's 2023 #teletext compo. It was also included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released three years ago this month!

MIST1022/LITTLEBITSPACE-TRIPPY

Mistigram: you can eat every mushroom, but some kinds of mushrooms can only be eaten once. This trippy #PETSCII skull was drawn by @littlebitspace and included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released four years ago this month.
 

MIST1021/KUROGAO-THRILLER

 Mistigram: possibly no cautionary folk tale or urban myth is stranger or as profoundly disturbing as the full account of the life of #MichaelJackson, so with a week to go on the Halloween countdown clock, here's Kurogao's #emoji/#ASCIIart composition celebrating the distinctive choreography of the King of Pop's stone cold dancefloor hit #Thriller. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released five years ago this month.

MIST1020/UGLIFRUIT-NOSFERATU

 Mistigram: From 104 years ago, here's the terrifying vampiric #silhouette of #MaxSchreck in FW Murnau's #Nosferatu, illustrated in #teletext by Uglifruit. This screen was included in the spooky MIST1020 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

MIST1019/PIXELMANCER-₵Ø₥ł₦₲₮ⱧⱤØɄ₲Ⱨ ł₦ ₩₳VɆ₴

 Mistigram: The Pixelmancer (a side project of 192.168.10.13) glitched and distressed this cranium, tortuously titled "₵Ø₥ł₦₲₮ⱧⱤØɄ₲Ⱨ ł₦ ₩₳VɆ₴". We included it in the spooky MIST1019 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

MIST1018/MENTALPOP-SKELETON_GHOST

 Mistigram: Do you mind? Some of us undead spectres like to keep things dim down here in the catacombs, our rotten eyeballs are very sensitive to the light! This charming #pixelart animation was made by Mentalpop and included in the spooky MIST1018 artpack collection released eight years ago this month!

MIST1017/SPITOUFS-ANSIPOE-(17)-THE_CITY_IN_THE_SEA

 Mistigram: this is an excerpt of #EdgarAllanPoe's poem #TheCityInTheSea, illustrated in #ANSIart in Lobo Spitoufs' #ANSIPOE collection for BBS enjoyment of the classics... repackaged and included in the spooky MIST1017 artpack collection released nine years ago this month!

MIST1018/HORSENBURGER-THE_STUFF-1

Mistigram: this troubling @horsenburger #teletext screen adapts a scene from Larry Cohen's 1985 SF horror movie #TheStuff, a cautionary tale about food additives. It was included in the spooky MIST1018 artpack collection, released eight years ago this month. "Are you eating it, or is it eating you?" 

MIST1019/EMME_DOBLE-UMBREON_FAMILIAR

 Mistigram: #Umbreon is a Dark-type #Pokemon from Generation II and I bet you didn't know that they had a suitable temperament to serve as a wizard's familiar? At least, that is the story emme_doble was telling us with this #pixelart mashup, which we included in the MIST1019 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

MIST1020/SKONEN_BLADES-ELECTRIC_GUITAR_WITCH

 Mistigram: Legend of Bonefish alumnus skonen_blades isn't just a poet-king gamedev, guesting on podcasts and burlesque stages, he's basically a full-bore Renaissance man. He often undertakes seasonal drawing challenges (currently: MODOK mash-ups), and back in 2020 he visited a series of alt witches on career day flying the wooden tools of their trade across the seasonal skies. We included a few of them, including this badass electric guitar witch (in combat boots!), in the MIST1020 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

MIST1021/HORSENBURGER-REANIMATORB

 Mistigram: this digital illustration of #JeffreyCombs as #HerbertWest in the 1985 "science fiction comedy horror" movie #ReAnimator was drawn, very greenly, by @horsenburger. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released five years ago this month. (Hey, Herbert, who's that coming up behind you?)

MIST1022/LITTLEBITSPACE-CARDBACK_REJECT-2

 Mistigram: an unused cardback design for @littlebitspace's collection of #PETSCII #Tarot cards released earlier the same year, this pair of skulls was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

MIST1023/HORSENBURGER-CORALINE_MOTHER1

 Mistigram: the original "other mommy", here's a button-eyed @horsenburger #teletext portrait of #theBeldam from Laika's 2009 #Coraline. This screen was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

MIST1024/PIZZATOE-AMY-QING_ZOMBIE

 Mistigram: Amy of Pizzatoe drew this #ASCIIart #Jiangshi (Chinese Qing dynasty #hoppingvampire) as a guest appearance in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released two years ago.  We hoped to repay the favour with Mist artists making guest appearances in the planned debut Pizzatoe release a year ago, but no one ever figured out how or why that one fell through.  On a still autumn night some say you can still hear them planning their artpack launch!

MIST1025/US-SHOEBODY

 Mistigram: this time last year, Cthulu was holed up in an agriturismo in rural Italy on a vacation, explaining to his family that while he had managed to duck responsibility for packaging the annual Mist Hallowe'en artpack for the first time in eleven years, that didn't relieve him of the duty to populate it with submissions... which is why when things got quiet after the magical Tuscan sunset, he could be found drawing colourful variations of the phrase #ShoebodyBop on his laptop. Sometimes you just have to love your family members unconditionally because no explanation will really suffice to understand what the heck they're up to.

The words look gnarly, but the words themselves aren't. WTF is up here? Cth was very taken by #DrueLanglois' 2022 demonic baptismal animation set to the song of the same name by the Minute Hour. He had roughed out a sketch from it depicting a cultist invokation which LDA and Zeus II later fleshed out taken in a very different direction. (Originally he had planned to depict a series of iconic moments from the music video, punctuated with permutations on its strange name, but Italy rudely interrupted this aspiration with a series of historical hilltop distractions.)

Maybe we'll see more Shoebody moments later this month, but this introductory portion was included in the MIST1025 artpack collection released a year ago.

MIST1025/HORSENBURGER-DRACULA

 Mistigram: this monochrome #teletext portrait of #BelaLugosi in Universal's 1931 #Dracula movie was drawn by @horsenburger. It was included in the spooky MIST1025 artpack collection released one year ago this month. "There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

MIST1024/DARKMAN_ALMIGHTY-GHOST-MACHINE-SWIRL

 Mistigram: this hypnotic Twilight Zone-ish greyscale #ANSIart screen, "Ghost Machine Swirl", was drawn by Darkman Almighty and included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released two years ago this month. Are you the ghost? Are you in the machine, or is it in you?

MIST1023/ATONALOSPREY-SKULL_3_4_PROFILE

 Mistigram: this detailed monochrome #teletext skull was drawn by @atonalosprey (surely in some kind of conversation with bonemeister littlebitspace!) and included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

MIST1022/MIST1022.NFO.6

 Mistigram: this creepy little skeletal pirate dude was adapted to #ANSIart by DW of Dark Systems BBS, and we included it as an infofile illustration in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

MIST1021/BNJMNBRGMN-THE_THINGS_IN_THE_WALLS

 Mistigram: "Things in the Walls" is a Lovecraftian #PETSCII illustration drawn by @bnjmnbrgmn (aka Bema), included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection and also in the #Commodore64 "The Nameless PETSCII" slideshow released the following month.

MIST1020/BLIPPYPIXEL-WITCHING_HOUR

 Mistigram: this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen, "Witching Hour", was drawn by @blippypixel and included in the spooky MIST1020 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

MIST1019/XTCOMICS-COSTUMES

 Mistigram: you might feel like a turd discovering that someone else at the costume party has the same costume as the one you thought would be very unique and original on you, but doubly so when your shared costume is literally the dookie emoji! This seasonal #ASCIIart comic strip, drawn by XTComics (now @earl.types.art), was included in the MIST1019 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

MIST1018/STEPHANREWIND-THE_OMEN

 Mistigram: these micro #pixelart portraits of Harvey Spencer Stephens as juvenile Antichrist ("It's not a child") #DamienThorn, from Richard Donner's 1976 movie #TheOmen, were drawn by @stephanrewind and included in the MIST1018 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

MIST1017/HORSENBURGER-NEAR_DARK-SEVEREN

 Mistigram: "Hey. You look like 40 miles of rough road!" This #teletext portrait of the late #BillPaxton as vampire biker #Severen from the 1987 movie #NearDark was drawn by @horsenburger and included in the spooky MIST1017 artpack collection released nine years ago this month.

MIST0826/AXB-DAVINCI

 Mistigram: #LeonardoDaVinci, the original Renaissance man, who created the Mona Lisa and invented the helicopter, is here drawn in newschool #ASCIIart by @axbmusic. This portrait was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

MIST0826/ATONALOSPREY-CONTENT_PILLS_VITAMIN_C

 Mistigram: if you haven't yet enjoyed today's dose of ＣＯＮＴＥＮＴover social media, @atonalosprey is here to remedy this lack with his #teletext dispensation, now conveniently packaged in capsule form! This screen was included in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

MIST0826/CT-DIGITAL_ORCA

 Mistigram: in last month's unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection, Cthulu was explicitly looking to adapt imagery suggestive of Mist's origins in area code 604 (aka #Vancouver) and one place his search brought him was artist-author #DouglasCoupland's 2009 sculpture #DigitalOrca, installed in #CoalHarbour. In real life the killer whale is composed of black and white blocks, and ironically looks quite a bit more like #ANSIart in person than this rendition indicates.

Though the sculpture is located in the Downtown previously viewed from afar in Nitron's landscape yesterday, you will note that (coincidentally) the specific stretch of North Shore Mountains depicted in the far background is virtually identical in both works and can practically be made to overlap each other.