MIST-30/THE_WAR_ON_XMAS-WELL_DRESSED_GHOST

 Mistigram: this piece, TheWarOnXmas' amazing #ASCIIart remix of AFlamingoCup's incredible "Well-Dressed Ghost" pixelart piece from MIST1020 four years earlier, was included in last year's MIST-30 artpack collection, one of an awesome handful of updates and revisitations to worthwhile works lurking in our extensive back catalogue.

MIST1023/ILLARTERATE-GHOSTBOX

 Mistigram: What do you get for someone whose birthday is on Halloween? This @illarterate screen, 'Ghost in a Box', placed 2nd in the @flashparty #teletext compo two years ago and was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection also released two years ago.

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Today on Mistigram! In 1975, Stephen King wrote the book Salem’s Lot. (In 1994 Helter established a 604-area BBS of the same name.) In 1979 the novel was adapted into a TV miniseries with some striking promotional artwork. In 2010 the Swedish heavy metal band Ghost released their album “Opus Eponymous”, whose album illustration echoed the influence of the Salem’s Lot art.

And in 2014, Publius Emeritus II (who had not touched textmode art in this century) adapted the Ghost album artwork into a newschool ASCII celebrating the revival of our long-dormant underground computer artgroup Mistigris, not simply retaining the subject and approach, but dismantling and reassembling the logo into a new configuration.

Not bad, huh?