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    From jack phlash@911:1423/0 to All on Sun Dec 28 15:27:34 2025
    Josh Renaud has recently been advertising his new blog series about ANSI's possible place in the origin story of web comics and I gave it a read this morning. It's only half out at the time of this post, but it's already been a fun read if you like to nerd out on this kind of thing:

    https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc

    As usual with Josh's stuff it's really well written, but in this case it seems to be targeting an audience a bit less familiar with the art scene and BBSing as whole, which seems like an odd choice given the theme of his blog, but please cut him some slack when he's explaining what a BBS even is. ;)

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  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to jack phlash on Sun Dec 28 18:23:48 2025
    Josh Renaud has recently been advertising his new blog series about
    ANSI's possible place in the origin story of web comics and I gave it a read this morning. It's only half out at the time of this post, but it's already been a fun read if you like to nerd out on this kind of thing:

    Oh wow - I know this name... this is a stab in the dark, but did he do those ANSi comics at some point? A guy and his wife...???? - OR, I know I've read/seen him around the scene... where?

    https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc

    Derp - Break into Chat. Right... not the comics I was thinking, but LOTS of cool ANSI/retro stuffs. Break into Chat is SICK.

    As usual with Josh's stuff it's really well written, but in this case it seems to be targeting an audience a bit less familiar with the art scene and BBSing as whole, which seems like an odd choice given the theme of
    his blog, but please cut him some slack when he's explaining what a BBS even is. ;)

    Thanks for the share, reading up now. :P



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  • From jack phlash@911:1423/0 to paulie420 on Mon Dec 29 08:08:57 2025
    on 28 Dec 2025, paulie420 said...

    Derp - Break into Chat. Right... not the comics I was thinking, but LOTS of cool ANSI/retro stuffs. Break into Chat is SICK.

    Yeah, his blog is awesome, although I feel like most of his deep dives are pretty insanely esoteric niches inside of an already niche topic itself. I absolutely love stuff like that though.

    Thanks for the share, reading up now. :P

    The funniest thing to me is that he's centered on Eerie and sort of talks about him like he's an unknown at first (which of course he would be to most people) but if you followed the ANSI scene in the 90s, Eerie is pretty much a household name. :P

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  • From Accession@911:1262/1 to jack phlash on Mon Dec 29 16:51:44 2025
    Hey jack!

    On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:08:56 -0800, you wrote:

    The funniest thing to me is that he's centered on Eerie and sort of
    talks about him like he's an unknown at first (which of course he would
    be to most people) but if you followed the ANSI scene in the 90s, Eerie
    is pretty much a household name. :P

    I still display a '33/Samsara' ansi around here somewhere, just because he was THAT much of a household name I couldn't replace it. ;)

    Same goes for Soul Assassin, Stone the Crow, Unsane, and many others from that era.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to jack phlash on Mon Dec 29 17:55:17 2025
    Derp - Break into Chat. Right... not the comics I was thinking, but L of cool ANSI/retro stuffs. Break into Chat is SICK.

    Yeah, his blog is awesome, although I feel like most of his deep dives
    are pretty insanely esoteric niches inside of an already niche topic itself. I absolutely love stuff like that though.

    He was doing some ANSi 'animation' stuffs that was really cool... I also LOVED his Atari graphics (BBSes) blog posts; just a lot of cool posts up 'our' alley.

    The funniest thing to me is that he's centered on Eerie and sort of
    talks about him like he's an unknown at first (which of course he would
    be to most people) but if you followed the ANSI scene in the 90s, Eerie
    is pretty much a household name. :P

    Yessir. I knew I remembered the name...



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