Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 22, 2016 at 2:08pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, a curious experiment from the desk of Grim Reaper, the longstanding VGA department coordinator of Mist Classic. The one major idea in play here is wondering what a hirez (high resolution) artist could do with the circumscribed canvas permitted a textmode artist in the space alloted for use in a FILE_ID.DIZ file, the brief description of an archive’s contents that would display on BBS file bases. I guess he got stuck thinking on iconic logos beginning with the letter “M”, so we got a peculiar association with a brand we likely would never have endorsed or given free advertising to.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 22, 2016 at 2:08pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Oct 23, 2016 at 2:22pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, this ANSI art Mistigris header (excerpted from a longer piece) drawn by our longtime 418 coordinator (and later Sietch Tabr coordinator) The Extremist and first released in January of 1996!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Oct 23, 2016 at 2:22pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 30, 2016 at 1:09pm UTC

Destro drew a couple of variations on this two-tone Mistigris ANSI art logo, tinted to reflect the palette of the given scroller it would be placed as a header atop. This particular version was originally released in January of 1996.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 30, 2016 at 1:09pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Aug 7, 2016 at 12:53pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, a piece of ANSI art in the exotic 80x50 screen mode by Sentience, drawn on his Amiga using homebrew software. It was released as part of a “colly” (an end-to-end compilation if you will) of other works drawn in the same 50-line mode in our January 1996 artpack. The logo is purple and pleasant, round and friendly, but the Terminator-esque illustration warns of the promises and perils of the cyber era knocking at the door.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Aug 7, 2016 at 12:53pm UTC