mistfunk | Entries tagged with halloween

A bearded man with long, rainbow hair sits at a desk in his lab before a flashing model, flasks and test tubes bubbling merrily away all around him.

Mistigram: this animated #BBCMicro high resolution graphics #pixelart loop of an #alchemist surrounded by his bubbling kit was drawn by

blippypixel and included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

A horrific baron of Hell, eyes flashing, blood dripping off its fleshless face, champs its fearsome jaws at us while a stickman in the distance is subjected to eternal torments

Mistigram: In case you were considering gambling with the fate of your eternal soul, MC Fresher drew us this endless animated UTF-8 GIF animation loop of a hapless stickman being tormented eternally in flaming perdition. This piece was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this gaunt steed may only represent a hacker conveying himself through cyberspace (hence the ones and zeroes, and the accents in terminal green), but we felt that

mavenmob's #ANSIart scene here was creepy enough to warrant inclusion in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection. (Isn't having your private files rifled through by strangers scary enough?)
Against a cloudy white backdrop, a dark rider perches atop a gaunt horse, both with glowing green eyes. Beneath them, the land gives way to binary digits.

Against a cloudy white backdrop, a dark rider perches atop a gaunt horse, both with glowing green eyes. Beneath them, the land gives way to binary digits.

In a laboratory beneath a manor home, a doctor brings a screaming cadaver to life using lightning

Mistigram: long caught up in development hell,

grymmjack's #Atari2600 video game adaptation of #Frankenstein finally saw release in tandem with Guillermo del Toro's Netflix film of the same name. (OK no, but its cover art mock-up was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection!)

Two spindly tall figures lean in close beneath the full moon, atop a curly hilltop revealed to have an impish green spooky face.

Mistigram: as we approach the sweet spot between Halloween and Christmas, this silhouetted #teletext screen by

horsenburger, depicting a tender moment in #theNightmareBeforeChristmas between Sally and #JackSkellington (on a spooky hill that is actually #OogieBoogie) straddles both realms handily. It was included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

A torrent of bees emerges from the open mouth of a dapper man in a fur coat, while the word Candyman is written three times in the background.

Mistigram: this #teletext portrait of the late #TonyTodd as #Candyman was drawn by

horsenburger and included in the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection.

A bloody machete has been used to carve the word MISTIGRIS into the side of a pumpkin.

Mistigram:

2stoned kindly carved us a #jackolantern with his unfortunately stained machete. (That rust just won't come out!) This #ANSIart piece was used as an infofile header in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago.

A woman wears a very elaborate masked headdress like a sinister pagan four-masted sailing ship.

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.

An office worker in a bright yellow suit has a wrinkled shrunken head.

Mistigram: this #teletext portrait of #Bob the Shrinker (#shrunkenhead person) from last year's #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice was drawn by

horsenburger and included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

Is that curly hair or are its soupy brains being expelled from its cranium under high pressure in an evaporated form?

Mistigram: a synthesis of #ANSIart and #ASCIIart, all you need to know about this #skull is that it's all scream. Is that curly hair or are its soupy brains being expelled from its cranium under high pressure in an evaporated form? It was drawn as a creepy guest appearance by our main liaison with the new Pizzatoe computer art community, Jackey, and was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago.

A colossal angry tomato roars in rage at the crest of a breaking tidal wave, while behind it another irate nightshade terrorizes a cityscape.

Mistigram: Originally intended as vegetarian menu art for the IMBIBE01 food-themed e-mag, Cthulu adapted the poster to the 1978 B-movie #AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes to #ANSIart with help from LDA and Moth. It was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack released one year ago.

The sea a riot of waves and the night sky alive with cosmic rays, an ancient winged cyclopean green octopus-headed god from another world lumbers past a coastal community

Mistigram: this #PETSCII portrait of #HPLovecraft's preeminent Great Old One, #Cthulhu (who in his house at R'lyeh waits dreaming) was drawn by bnjmnbrgmn aka Bema. It was included in the spooky MIST1021 artpack collection released four years ago.

A youthful witch (or Halloween Sorceress) with pale skin and colourful accents on her face and hair gazes off to the left beneath her wide-brimmed hat, holding a green-burning flaming pumpkin. Behind her, bats fly across the face of the full moon.

Mistigram: this witchy #ANSIart cutie, surrounded by tiny details (the bats traversing the full moon, the flaming jack 'o lantern in her hand!) was drawn by Momo of the

pizzatoe computer art crew as a guest appearance in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this #PETSCII illustration by

littlebitspace, 'The Last Gambit', presents an existential scene, all of us kings in our games of #chess, all doomed to #checkmate. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago.
A skull sits on a chess board, casting behind it the shadow of a crowned head.

A skull sits on a chess board, casting behind it the shadow of a crowned head.

A jolly white sheet phantom pokes its grinning head out of a yellow box. Peek-a-boo!

Mistigram: What do you get for someone whose birthday is on Halloween? This

illarterate screen, 'Ghost in a Box', placed 2nd in the

flashparty #teletext compo two years ago and was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection also released two years ago.

An angry undead character with colourful rotting flesh, clad in ancient traditional Chinese garb, grimaces menacingly at the viewer.

Mistigram: this #ASCIIart illustration of a #jiangshi or 'hopping vampire' of Chinese folklore (and beloved of Hong Kong cinema) was a guest appearance by Amy of the Pizzatoe computer art crew. It was included in last year's spooky MIST1024 artpack collection, resplendent in its Qing dynasty traditional garb. There's a rumour about that

pizzatoe may soon be dropping their first artpack, so we're hoping to schedule these posts to roughly coincide with their debut.

An unstoppable man wearing a William Shatner mask looks out of a window

Mistigram: I don't know where DW of Dark Systems BBS sourced the pattern from, but he adapted it into this #ANSIart illustration of #Halloween killer #MichaelMyers. This screen was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection.

Beneath the orange of the setting autumn sun, a witch, a wizard and a dapper skeleton emerge from a giant steamer trunk in a graveyard, to the bemusement of nearby critters and varmints creeping or fluttering by.

Mistigram: all the whimsical old costumes rise from their graves at the bottom of the tickle trunk for one more night strutting and fretting across the stage on #Halloween.

kurogao96 shares their seasonal well-wishes in their #ASCIIart-with-#emoji style. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.

A round-headed kid, face obscured by a burlap sack of mask with buttons for eyes, watches you from behind a Jack-o-lantern lollipop with a big bite taken out of it.

Mistigram: #Samhain is a Gaelic holiday marking the end of the harvest season, coinciding with #Halloween. And here we have a

horsenburger #teletext portrait of #SamHain, a creepy little kid serving as the main monstrous antagonist in the 2007 horror film #TrickRTreat. This screen was included in the spooky new MIST1023 artpack collection.