Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 4, 2016 at 2:15pm UTC

Everyone’s always making ANSI art of comic book characters, but no one’s ever making ASCII art of comic strip characters. So alike, yet so different! This year in MIST1116 we compiled what must be a decade of textmode doodles made by my old TABNet colleague Pannekoekologist into a digest of textmode art adaptations of Tony Millionaire’s ‘90s alt-weekly staple, “Maakies”, boiled down into something we couldn’t resist calling “Maakscii art”. Pictured here is the dipsomaniac character Drinky Crow, likely mere panels before filling his head with bullets.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 4, 2016 at 2:15pm UTC

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It gives us great pleasure (and enormous relief) to announce that MIST1116, the Mistigris computer artpack collection for which we’d been gathering submissions since the end of April, is finally out following a series of delays.

With a strong current of pieces dealing with themes of technology, transhumanism and cyberspace, there’s also plenty to enjoy to suit camps old and new alike – several varieties of textmode artwork, including typewriter masterpieces and an unstoppable parade of teletext, plus the “real-life” art forms historically absent, including drawing, painting, photography and collage. (Still no dance! We’ve got to have something to strive toward, I guess.)

And keeping us relevant despite our celebrating the occasion of our 22nd anniversary, the kids will enjoy an unsettling SnapChat face-swap and an canonical literary work transliterated into emoji.

(Also, at least three accordions. They’re made to fit in there thematically somehow, but huh – go figure!)

If you’d like to download the entire collection in one 185-meg go for local enjoyment, please point your web browser to bit.ly/MIST1116 ; if on the other hand you’d like to wander through a garden of thumbnails via a web gallery, textmod.es is hosting (most of) it at bit.ly/MIST1116gallery

(Pictured: “V for Vendetta” ANSI adaptation by cccfire
“Smoke and Mirrors” by Delphine Hennelly
Textile Kaleidoscope by Daniel Wickert
“God organ, its jubilant appreciation” painting by Nick Lakowski
Judge Dredd teletext by Illarterate
“A Hundred Impossible Species of Blue” collage by Arielle Olivier
“The Old Guitarist” Shift_JIS adaptation by Kalcha
“Maakscii art” by Pannekoekologist
“Couture” drawing by Theresa Oborn
“Imissthenineteenhundredandnineties” by xer0.)