Our back catalogue continues to yield strange dividends! This piece wasn’t granted elite “ANSI of the Day” status on its own, but as part of a roundup of ANSIs of characters from Jeff Smith’s comic Bone – one of the most popular “toon” ANSI subjects of all time. This rendition was executed by Sarcasm of Mistigris but initially credited as coming from the fellow artgroup Dark Illustrated – because we released it with them in May, 1997, in DARK0597.ZIP, Mistigris’ “World Tour” stop visiting Dark and releasing all our artwork in their collection. (It was confusing then and apparently it remains so today, some 19 years down the line.)
Sdaly I don’t have much to tell you about Sarcasm, an artist with an intriguing and idiosyncratic style… who I never met, whose name I ever knew, who came from parts unknown, and who proceeded to appear only nominally in a Glue artpack or two. Given so little to work with, of course we have been unsuccessful at locating him on Facebook, so I don’t have much else to report in this blog post.
This was not the first or even the best appearance of Bone characters in a Mistigris artpack – Babyface had a practice run, then knocked one out of the park in March of 1998 (despite my failure to secure a collaborator to add a second half to it, re-enacting this classic Muppets bit)… but that’s neither here nor there. Loath as I am to admit it, sometimes it turns out there is simply no interesting back story to share!
