Lokke gave away his "Mack the Mouse" telecomics for free, hoping to entice BBS sysops to pay for access to his Online Publishing business.

Subscribers could download extra content like his other telecomics "Talking Heads," "Rainbow," "Reggie the Rattler," and "Yellow Bird."

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

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Lokke began publishing his "telecomics" at the height of the 1992 presidential election.

He used them to channel the skepticism and anger felt by everyday Americans about broken political promises and the looming economic recession.

He would go on to draw nearly 300 telecomics by 1995. They were forgotten and mostly lost until decades later when I recovered more than 140 of them.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

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The workstages of Kaoru fighting a robot! It started as a narrow strip, some stages were done on my Steam Deck at work, and the robot was drawn in a separate file before I merged it into the main one.

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My forthcoming profile of Don Lokke and his "telecomics" has been a lot harder to write than I expected.

But I'm very happy with the latest drafts. The end is finally in sight.

(This will be the fifth and final installment of my "ANSI art and webcomics" series: https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc)

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