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.)