Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 9:58pm UTC

You’ve doubtless heard the claim here before: “quite possibly the smallest Mist logo”, “almost certainly the smallest Mistigris logo ever drawn” … one Nail, formerly of Fire and recently of revived ANSI art greatness, got tired of hearing these contested and unclear claims and resolved to settle the matter once and for all, with this – without any doubt, the smallest Mist textmode logo ever drawn. Are smaller ones possible? Theoretically. Would they amount to a hill of beans? Not likely. So we take our very little hats off and give him a teensy weensy round of applause.

(This logo was used atop the memberlist of the recent MIST1016 artpack release: small logo, long infofile!)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 9:58pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 8:44pm UTC

MIST1016 truly had it all – and some things, it seems, it had twice! xer0 demonstrated handily that there’s more than one way to skin a Nintendo game! His earlier glitched-out Castlevania hirez piece (what a coincidence, and both of their nicknames being situated toward the end of the alphabet as they are threw them so close together… the pieces were fated to meet thus!) highlights flaws and errors rather than elegance and beauty, and in so doing penetrates straight to the heart of the subject: that something is fundamentally wrong with this whole bloody system!

(Have you tried blowing in the slot?)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 8:44pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 7:52pm UTC

Mist Classic alumnus Whazzit has been busy brewing up some unprecedented stylistic mash-ups, colliding HD photography of landscapes and architecture with ANSI art figures. He just released a bundle of them in the Blocktronics Blocktober artpack, but beating them out by a nose in MIST1016 was this, his Hallowe'eny take on the subject of Castlevania, Konami’s eternal video game series celebrating the conflict between the Belmont family and the vampire Dracula. Here we see Simon Belmont and Drac facing each other down across an elegant chamber, while a small flock of bats rest and stretch way up high.

(Of course, my favorite part is that there’s an entire roast chicken hidden inside the third pillar from the left!)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 7:52pm UTC

teletextart:

#pixelart Ghost jokes, Granada ORACLE, 20th June 1982. Quick (semi-)shoutout for @Grim_Fandango himself on this page!

Captured by Jason Robertson http://twitter.com/grim_fandango

Source: http://archive.teletextart.co.uk and http://www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk/teletext76/

The perfect marriage of the graphical and the literary?

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 6:03pm UTC

A highlight of our recent MIST1016 Hallowe'en artpack was this second annual guest appearance by Raquel “ACIDT*” Meyers, a kind of textmode outsider art savant who happens to, happily for us, specialise in monsters! This piece of PETSCII (the textmode character set of Commodore’s home computers, most notably the C=64) art is entitled “Ambush”, and … I think that I’m looking at Thriller-era Michael Jackson at the bottom left there. Shamon!

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 6:03pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 3:07pm UTC

Theresa Oborn was not the only star in the Mistigris constellation to be doing daily spooky drawings for #inktober – also, a ton of creepy work was flowing out of the pencil (I know, flowing from a pencil – creepy, eh?) of Brad “Bonemouse” Morris… this is not his first year at the monthlong challenge, and for MIST1016 we availed ourselves of two years’ worth of his doodles (alas, some of his strongest pieces were posted in the closing days of October, after the artpack was already “final”… but I suppose they give us a start on next Hallowe'en’s collection!)

This one was in response to the “Witchcraft Wednesday” prompt, and I can’t help but think that this might be Holtzman in an alternate reality Ghostbusters where it is the busters who are the supernatural creatures.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 3:07pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 1:51pm UTC

Starting off today’s offerings from the recent MIST1016 Hallowe'en artpack, here’s an ASCII art Gojira (Godzilla) from the desk of ldb, colourized by myself and used at the end of our infofile. I know he’s supposed to be flattening Tokyo, but isn’t he cute?

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 1, 2016 at 1:51pm UTC