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A rundown of the developments in alt.ascii-art in 1997/98 written by Colin Douthwaite.
In several ways the last 2 years have seen some interesting
developments in the history of Ascii Art and the newsgroup
alt.ascii-art.
Joan Stark has emerged as a very talented, and by far the most
prolific Ascii Artist, to date, easily surpassing the collections of
Row; Targon; Susie Oviatt; Normand Veilleux and Allen Mullen.
In 1998 Joan earned a prestigious award from Geocities.com for her
Website on Geocities as well as many tributes and accolades from
those who see and enjoy her excellent work.
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Then we have seen the emergence of Pete Casso with his creation of a
new subgenre of "Stein Characters", second only to the well-known
"Silly Cows" genre in Ascii Art, and by far outstripping the other
known genres of Sheep; Owls; Koala Bears, and Luke the Spook.
The two basic characters were Birdstein and Frogstein...
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Followed by an ever growing number of other Steins:
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03 The 'steins Hall of Fame 03
04 by Pete Casso 970920 04
05 05
06 . + . 06
07 \^|^/ 07
08 .oo 08
09 ( -) Frogstein, King of the Pond 09
10 " " 10
11 11
12 + 12
13 \^^/ 13
14 ( "> 14
15 (> )> Birdstein, Queen of the Sky 15
16 ^^ 16
17 17
18 (\ /) 18
19 (:\oo/:) 19
20 ( -) Pegastein, head in the clouds ... 20
21 " " 21
22 22
23 .oo 23
24 .'''' -) Sphinxstein, feet on the ground ... 24
25 (__)_)__)_) 25
26 26
27 27
28 /( 28
29 /\(oo)/\ Ghostein, a frequent visitor from Heaven 29
30 \ / 30
31 31
32 32
33 ,, 33
34 ( "> w 34
35 ,(> )>| Devilstein, a frequent visitor from Hell 35
36 ( ^^ 36
37 37
38 38
39 /( 39
40 (\( "> Roosterstein, the musician in the barnyard 40
41 `(> )> Often called PeteHovenstein by his fans 41
42 ^^ 42
43 43
44 ,, 44
45 (@@ Owlstein, the wisdom dispenser 45
46 (> )> Often called Onestein by his admirers 46
47 ^^ 47
48 48
49 ,, 49
50 ( "/ Dragonstein, who sired the Loch Ness monster 50
51 )\` 51
52 / 52
53 53
54 _==_ 54
55 ( "> 55
56 (>,)> BrusselsBoystein, who has a cute squirter 56
57 ^^ 57
58 58
59 . . 59
60 .)\ /(. 60
61 .) ,\ @.@ /, (. 61
62 .) - (,-,) - (. Draculstein, appearing as a vampire 62
63 .) '/ \` (. 63
64 .)/ \(. 64
65 ' ' 65
66 66
67 ,()) 67
68 ,( "> Mousestein, who does a great job 68
69 ( " " in scaring evil witches away 69
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Note: Pete is now marking his Stein cartoon drawings as Copyright (c).
A very recent development has been the emergence in alt.ascii-art of
programmers who have written useful Ascii Tools.
ASC2PIC.EXE - by Martin Atkins converts Ascii pictures back to
photographic style images. Especially useful for
viewing those large multi-screen Ascii pictures.
RESIZE.EXE - By "Stile" which allows simple percentage reduction or
enlargement of Ascii pictures by removing or adding
characters. Very useful for trimming widths of
pictures of 80 or more columns which overlap the
screen or cause line wrapping.
Works best on block-style art ( as illustrated )
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