MIST0426/MOTH-STEVE_GRAND-GROWING_UP_WITH_LUCY

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart adaptation of the cover to scientist #SteveGrand's 2003 DIY domestic android manual #GrowingUpWithLucy was drawn by Moth and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0118/KALCHA-ALBUM-SONNY_ROLLINS-SAXOPHONE_COLOSSUS

 Mistigram: a regretful reprint from our back stacks, rest in power to jazz titan #SonnyRollins, whose 1957 album #SaxophoneColossus was here celebrated in #ShiftJIS by @kalchano in the music-themed MIST0118 artpack collection eight years ago.

MIST0426/ATONALOSPREY-MICHAEL_CRIGHTON-JURASSIC_PARK

 Mistigram: @atonalosprey was so preoccupied with whether or not he could render #ChipKidd's iconic cover art design to Michael Crichton's 1990 bestseller #JurassicPark as #teletext #ASCIIart... he didn't stop to think if he should. This screen was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-D'AULAIRES_BOOK_OF_GREEK_MYTHS

 Mistigram: perhaps Cthulu was overcome with hubris, his tragic flaw, attempting to depict everything in the heavens and on the earth using only 80 columns, but nevertheless he attemped to adapt the cover to #DAulaires 1962 Book of Greek Myths, a formative collection, to #ANSIart, and managed to cram in, if not exactly exalt, all of the subjects. This depiction of #Helios' solar chariot was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/BLIPPYPIXEL-J_R_R_TOLKIEN-MORDOR

 Mistigram: in this scene from #ReturnOfTheKing, #Gandalf the White (atop Shadowfax) surveys siege towers approaching Minas Tirith, Mordor smouldering in the distant background. This #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen was drawn by @blippypixel and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection. For Gondor!

MIST0426/WA-ATLAS

 Mistigram: a guest apperance by Warpus of Lazarus, this #ANSIart entry in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection is a Polish historical atlas, clearly frequently-consulted judging by the wear patterns on its cover.

MIST0426/CT-RC

 Mistigram: trotting an old joke around the track once again, in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection Cthulu made a batch file DOSbox adaptation of George Nachman's #RichardCory Interactive Adventure from 1998, a joke about #EdwinArlingtonRobinson's 1897 poem from over a hundred years earlier. This is its splash screen, with its weird Braille-like low-#ASCIIart logo to accommodate the dictates of the MS-DOS command line. You can play it via https://16colo.rs/pack/mist0426/CT-RC.BAT or see the original at https://www.llamas.org/corey.html

MIST0426/US-KURT_CYRUS-ODDHOPPER_OPERA

 Mistigram: this #ANSIart adaptation of the cover art to #KurtCyrus' 2001 illustrated children's book #OddhopperOpera, a riot of bugs and creepy crawlers, was drawn by Moth and LDA, and was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/ATONALOSPREY-HARUKI_MURAKAMI-SPUTNIK_SWEETHEART

 Mistigram: Literature! Now that I've got your attention, this monochrome #teletext adaptation of a cover art illustration to Japanese author #HarukiMurakami's 1999 novel #SputnikSweetheart was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-ALLEN_GINSBERG-HOWL

 Mistigram: OK, we shared Burroughs and Kerouac, so let's wrap it up and complete the Beat set. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked', but Cthulu couldn't draw all that in #ANSIart, so instead he just adapted #Howl's 1956 #CityLights cover design. This piece was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-JACK_KEROUAC-ON_THE_ROAD

 Mistigram: from one celebrated '50s typewritten manuscript to another, today we look at Cthulu's attempt to adapt #BillEnglish's abstract cover art illustration to #JackKerouac's influential 1957 Beat novel #OnTheRoad.  This screen was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-WILLIAM_S_BURROUGHS-NAKED_LUNCH

 Mistigram: yesterday we shared an image of a typewriter, and now logically we progress to #WilliamSBurroughs' 1959 #NakedLunch, whose 1991 Cronenberg film adaptation inspired the Simpsons' quote: 'I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.'  The cover art of this 1992 Grove Press edition issued in the wake of the movie, adapted to #ANSIart by Cthulu, was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/JONINSCII-TYPEWRITER

 Mistigram: Many a great novel has been written on a typewriter (and also, once in a while, an #emoticon #smilie.) This animated #ASCIIart #typewriter was drawn by Joninscii, and it was included in last month's literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-DAVID_AHL-101_BASIC_GAMES

 Mistigram: the great thing about hitting on an artpack theme like that of books, recently explored in last month's new MIST0426, is being reminded just how many different kinds of books there are. Here Cthulu has (with great difficulty) adapted to #ANSIart Bob Barner's doodly cover artwork to #DavidHAhl's seminal 101 #BASIC Computer Games, a 1973 volume of fun #typein code listings published by the Digital Equipment Corporation.

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!)