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A #retrocomputing #longreads recommendation for your Sunday:

In 1992, a year before the Web opened to the public, Texas entrepreneur Don Lokke was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to bulletin board systems.

His "telecomics," as he called them, represent an overlooked early experiment in online comics, and a window into an interesting moment in American politics.

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

#textmode #ansiart #pixelart #mastoart #uspolitics

Don Lokke and "Mack the Mouse": ANSI art and webcomics, Part 5 - Break Into Chat

Don Lokke Jr. drew hundreds of political "telecomics" in the early 1990s in the ANSI art format as part of a business selling syndicated content to sysops.

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