Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 14, 2016 at 2:13pm UTC

And finally, from December of 1994, we get caught up with today’s Mistigram posting – this sliiiightly pHUNKy ANSI art Mist logo by White Insanity. It’s a peculiar logo that came on top of a quite peculiar illustration which we will be sure to share with you down the line, once we’ve exhausted our supplies of “Mist” logos 8) Perplexing, but at least it’s got lots of personality!

Today, after nearly 22 years, I finally did see the lemur. (It’s in the illustration, not the logo.)
Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 14, 2016 at 2:13pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 13, 2016 at 1:29pm UTC

Yesterday, Mistigram featured this newschool ASCII art rendition of Image Comics’ big man on campus Spawn, drawn by forgotten gem Crystal Meth and first released in our May 1997 joint artpack with Dark Illustrated in the culmination of the Mistigris World Tour.

The Mistigram pool is extensively shuffled according to a few criteria so we don’t get all the same artform in a row, there’s a good mix between early and late Mist classic, keeping too many logos in a row from appearing and preventing an individual artist from dominating a week unless we darned well deliberately intend for them to do so… but we don’t adjust for subject. This picture was planned to run weeks and months ago, but ended up in a spot where we would have ended up with two or even three Spawns in a row. There is probably room to do Spawn Week, but if we do end up rolling that way, I’d prefer for it to be on purpose 8)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 13, 2016 at 1:29pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 12, 2016 at 7:03pm UTC

With … quite a bit less of a story behind it, the following day’s Mistigram piece was this mad scientist hirez by Grinch, originally released in August 1997 and intended to be thrown up here following Happyfish’s ANSI art test tube before… life intervened.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 12, 2016 at 7:03pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 12, 2016 at 5:45am UTC

U> Has anyone done meme images scene art?
C> once in a blue moon it happens

U> Meme image
U> I mean stuff like pepe the frog etc
U> all colors are on default palette
U> Ansi green is similar to pthalo green and it’s pepes green color
U> I’m gonna push some ansi turds tonight

He couldn’t have known how true he was! Unseen Fate of pen15 generously got in some of our earliest ANSI art submissions in the crazy six-month call for submission period for MIST1116 (due out this weekend, I’m serious this time!) and the problem with the ample lead time is that it gave memetic subject matter time to mutate and go horribly wrong.

C> I’m a little concerned about recent developments vis a vis pepe the frog

U> Yas
U>
Don’t include

C>it’s a shame, because as ansi art it’s on fleek and as far as viral memes go, I guess we didn’t anticipate just how far it would pop, but for the wrong reasons

U>Yea
U>
And its origin is nice and clean

C>I can’t think of a way to include it while simultaneously stating “we disavow white supremacy and fascism”, beyond making him painfully shill for Hillary, which I think would be … trying a little too hard.

U>Just assholes turned it into shite
U>
Yas
U>
No pee pee until this has settled
U>
Don’t include it
U>Its hazard now
U>And I don’t want to be associated with those asshats namely alt right dicks and nazis

U>Last time Pepe was seen was 2007 in boy’s club comic. After that it became meme at 4chan
U>
Only last year there has been new 4 panel strip about Pepe
U>
Basically 4chan fuckers destroyed Pepe
U>
Anyway
U>
Internet ruins everything ??

C>Amen!

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Instagram photo by Cthulu • Aug 13, 2016 at 2:48pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, something a little more recent – ANSI art by bryface from our 2014 reunion / revivial / 20th anniversary artpack! I’d be very surprised if he’d touched PabloDraw at all since the turn of the century, and yet what he came up with is the equal (or better) of anything he ever drew back when it was a going concern! The logo, a rare full “Mistigris”, looks great, and the picture doesn’t let it down! All in all, a modern classic.

Stay tuned, as we have other breaking developments to report from his traditional wheelhouse (that being electronic music), but one thing at a time.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Aug 13, 2016 at 2:48pm UTC