Mistigram: here’s a totally random cross section of the variety of vintage #pixelart and #textmode computer art styles and mediums – #ANSIart, #teletext, #ASCIIart, emoji, #typewriterart – in our new, unthemed MIST0721 artpack collection - our hundredth! https://instagr.am/p/CRQaLPOD3BE/
Mistigram: it surprised us as much as anyone - announcing the release of the unthemed MIST0721, our hundredth artpack collection! You can check it out now at the @sixteen_colors website. FILE_ID.DIZ by CoaXCable. https://instagr.am/p/CRP1dJbHaRm/
Mistigram: what was alleged to be the final Break!ASCII artpack dropped last week. Cthulu couldn’t pay his respects quietly, but wrote a traditional artscene hype-man lit in their memory and tapped LDA to draft an epic “block ASCII” illustration for it. You can enjoy the collection on the @sixteen_colors website.
Mistigram: @pix_emme made this #pixelart vignette of #SpiderMan salvaging his media reputation and earning photo royalties for Peter Parker through some creative selfie shots. This piece was included in the comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection released one year ago this month.
Mistigram: what’re *you* lookin’ at, bub? Never seen a #pixelart mutant before? This (literally) smokin’ minimalist rendition of pre-eminent X-Man #Wolverine was drawn by @scofanogd and included in the comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CRHeFiuLgpI/
Mistigram: this greyscale (or is it just his #JoeFixit incarnation?) #Lego #pixelart portrait of #TheIncredibleHulk was made by @lego48x48, and was included in the comics-themed MIST0720 artpack collection released one year ago this month. https://instagr.am/p/CRE-0PJn9Mr/
Mistigram: in late elementary school I played homebrew tabletop and RPGs with John @chthonstone Metzger, who lived a block from school and had a complete set of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe to get the pump primed. I didn’t realise it at the time, but this was presumably because his father, #GeorgeMetzger, was a comics illustrator. (Well, a comix illustrator.) Growing up, I had somehow even wound up with a copy of his work – 1980’s final issue of his #Moondog, from #PrintMint / #LastGasp press.
As a kid, I really didn’t “get it” (part of childhood at that time was making the most of what you had available – eg. trying to make sense of my parents’ Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comix – unlike today’s bottomless subscription streams of your favorite media, on demand), but in its strangeness it still made its mark on my young psyche, such that 30 years later, when I was curating comics-themed computer art for last July’s MIST0720 artpack collection, I was drawn to reproduce that issue’s cover illustration as a deep cut, wild palette and all, in the #ANSIart medium – with a heavy assist by LDA on the details and colouring. https://instagr.am/p/CRCVgXmDarO/
