Mastodawn

In an alternate universe somewhere, nobody has heard of “webcomics.” Instead, there are thousands of “telecomics.”

In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “telecomics” to describe his new digital comic strips, drawn primarily in the ANSI art format and distributed online through BBSes.

This is the final in-depth profile in my "ANSI art and webcomics" series!

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

#webcomics #comics #retrocomputing #bbs #ansiart #textmode #longreads #history #computerhistory

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Josh Renaud

Rowan Lipkovits' (@mistfunk) description of my Lokke profile as "an interesting look at an ultimately doomed venture" got me thinking.

*Many* of the BBS-related histories I've written over the years on https://breakintochat.com/blog are tragic in that way!

Projects that started with big ambitions, but were doomed to fail.

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