MIST0897/IV-0897a

 Mistigram: this wriggly monochrome newschool #ASCIIart logo reading 'Ill Bred' was drawn by Jive and included in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

MIST0721/BLIPPYPIXEL-VALUE

 Mistigram: to cleanse the palate of AI discourse, here's a monochrome #teletext statement by @blippypixel (which you can interpret for yourself) about #NFT "art" included in the MIST0721 artpack collection released five years ago this month.

MIST0526/MIST0526.MEM

 Mistigram: Cthulu dutifully traced the monochrome poster art to Fritz Lang's 1927 German expressionist film #Metropolis as #blockASCII, then hesitated, contemplating its opening logo -- starts with an M... ends with an S... also contains a T, an I, an R... well heck, he thought, there's nearly already everything here needed to make a Mistigris logo out of, and then I could use it as an infofile header! Ultimately it did appear in exactly that way in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

MIST0619-PZ!ALTON_PLAZA

 Mistigram: this dope monochrome #ASCIIart logo for #AltonPlaza was drawn in the #oldschoolascii style by pz, and it was included in the MIST0619 artpack collection released 7 years ago this month.

MIST0624/ATONALOSPREY-BOND_OF_UNITY

 Mistigram: this double-wide monochrome #teletext screen by @atonalosprey reproduces #MCEscher's 1956 lithograph #BondOfUnion, depicting the heads of a man and woman formed entirely by a single thin coiled strip of mutual essence. It was included in the unthemed MIST0624 artpack collection released two years ago.

MIST0426/ATONALOSPREY-EDWARD_GOREY-GASHLYCRUMB_TINIES

 Mistigram: this monochrome #teletext adaptation of the cover art to #EdwardGorey's morbid 1963 alphabet book #TheGashleycrumbTinies was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/ATONALOSPREY-HARUKI_MURAKAMI-SPUTNIK_SWEETHEART

 Mistigram: Literature! Now that I've got your attention, this monochrome #teletext adaptation of a cover art illustration to Japanese author #HarukiMurakami's 1999 novel #SputnikSweetheart was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-ALLEN_GINSBERG-HOWL

 Mistigram: OK, we shared Burroughs and Kerouac, so let's wrap it up and complete the Beat set. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked', but Cthulu couldn't draw all that in #ANSIart, so instead he just adapted #Howl's 1956 #CityLights cover design. This piece was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/CT-WILLARD_S_BAIN-INFORMED_SOURCES-DAY_EAST_RECEIVED

 Mistigram: after seeing an intriguing scan of this early text art illustration from #WillardSBain's 1967 #InformedSources: Day East Received, Cthulu was moved to manually reproduce it as #ASCIIart and included it in last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection. The volume is patterned after all-caps teletype transmission by wire news services, and specifically "THE SKELETON OF THE BOOK IS MODELLED, SIGNIFICANTLY, ON THE AP REPORT FOR THE THREE DAYS FOLLOWING PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION."

MIST0226/MOZZ-BUTTERFLIES

 Mistigram: There's a beautiful spring day going on outside so today we're going to share this butterfly riot (I was confident I had a hapax legomenon there but surprisingly no!) drawn in monochrome #ASCIIart by Mozz. It was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack, and if we'd been right-thinking it would have been the FILE_ID.DIZ for that collection!

MIST0226/AXB-LOGOS2

 Mistigram: if you ever wondered just what axb stood for, it's truth, justice, and ... oh wait, never mind, it's initials for Axel Barebones. And here the man is to remind us in #ASCIIart himself! This piece was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/MOZZ-AURORA

 Mistigram: OMG, it's officially been spring for like ten days and we never officially kicked off the new season. Here -- we'll do it in style, with Mozz's monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of #AntonRaphaelMengs' ~1769 painting of #Aurora, the divine personification of the dawn. This piece was one of many by Mozz included in last month's unthemed new MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/KIRKMAN-X-OWL-ATASCII

 Mistigram: this nifty-galifty portrait (and logo!) of the puppet #XtheOwl from #MrRogersNeighborhood was drawn by Kirkman and placed 5th in the 2025 #ATASCII art compo of #textmode art for Atari 8-bit computers. It was also included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0226/MOZZ-KNIGHT

 Mistigram: this monochrome #ASCIIart adaptation of #DanielRidgwayKnight's 1892 painting #TheWaterCarriers was drawn by Mozz and included in last month's new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

MIST0223/ATONALOSPREY-EYES

 Mistigram: reading human body language isn't an exact science, but rather is subject to vagaries of culture and biology, something @atonalosprey played with in this monochrome study of ambiguously-emoting eyes. This #teletext screen was included in the MIST0223 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

MIST0117/PHIL-MAINWARING-STARDOT_AVATAR critters

 Mistigram: In an incredible, sprawling 70k animated GIF consisting of 254 basically #1bit monochrome screens Phil Mainwaring had drawn himself, mostly adaptations of the logos, mascots or slogans of vintage computing and technology companies, five of the designs featured these curious one-bit chimerae, part ant and part anteater. I can't place them, but we included them in that telephone book of a GIF in the MIST0117 artpack collection nine years ago this month.

ADVENT24/09_DEC24

 Mistigram: LDA shares with us this stark winter landscape, drawn for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar. Both last and this year's editions of the calendar can function as BBS doors, and you can see it in effect at X-Bit BBS at https://x-bit.org/

MIST1025/AXB-DRACULA

 Mistigram: Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!  This #blockASCII / #ANSIart portrait of #BelaLugosi in Universal's 1931 film adaptation of #Dracula was drawn by @axb and included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

MIST1022/ATONALOSPREY-SAMHAIN

 Mistigram: if you like getting all dressed up for pagan rites, why not rock this #Samhain headdress? This #monochrome #teletext illustration was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.

MIST1024/HORSENBURGER-YOUNG_FRANKENSTEIN

 Mistigram: this #monochrome #teletext portrait of the late #GeneWilder as the titular character in Mel Brooks' 1974 #YoungFrankenstein was drawn by @horsenburger and included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago this month.