MIST0695/MA-BSUN1

 Mistigram: a regretful reprint, this #ANSIart promo for #BlackSunshine BBS was drawn by Mavrik and released in the MIST0695 artpack collection released 31 years ago.  It depicts the offbeat Image Comics hero #TheMaxx.  RIP to his creator #SamKieth.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 29, 2016 at 12:50pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, as counterpoint to our earlier RIPscrip vector image of Sam Kieth’s Image Comics antihero The Maxx… an entirely different RIPscrip vector image of the same character by a different artist, this one drawn by Kestrel (better known for his ANSI art, but – this was no stumbling first try!) and released in our June 1996 artpack. Now the only question is what is the “ETHiC” that it is promoting?

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 29, 2016 at 12:50pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 15, 2016 at 1:21pm UTC

Point Grinch at a new creative tool and he rushed to go give it a whirl. If no Picasso, he was nonetheless a polymath of computer art. Here he was giving RIPscrip vector art a whirl, yielding a recognizable (if stylized) rendition of Sam Kieth’s Image Comics antihero The Maxx, from our July 1997 Mistigris artpack. (I love the way the letters are throbbing with muscles just as much as the hero is!)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 15, 2016 at 1:21pm UTC

The Sixteen Colours’ ANSI of the Day series has always been disproportionally generous to us – since, let’s be fair, despite coming close at our most vigorous, Mistigris ANSI never set the artscene on fire and it was always our most troubled division, eternally torn between striking out on their own or just throwing in the towel altogether. But one of our most consistent guiding lights over the course of Mistigris’ Classic period was Mavrik, SysOp of Daemon’s Gate, host to our BBS echomail network KiTSCHNet and instigator of our newsletter/e-mag (electronic magazine) KiTHE. He, uh, wore many hats, and consequently ANSI art never got his full focus – but when he slipped a few hours in PabloDraw into his crowded schedule, he always got excellent results. (Even today, having dug Mav up from deep retirement, though we haven’t yet tricked him into coughing up any new artwork, he has graciously provided web hosting at mistigris.org , so to him we say hats off!)

His appearance in today’s AOTD is the result of a recent swing toward the “roundup” format, of showing off multiple pictures of the same subject. Today’s theme is Julie Winters from The Maxx, and he represents us with an offering from the MIST0695 artpack.