Tag: t campbell
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Eerie and “Inspector Dangerfuck”: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 3
This is the third part of a multi-part series. “I’ve always been kind of restless,” says Eerie, the ANSI artist who created the character “Inspector Dangerfuck” in 1994. Today, Eerie is a musician and author, with a deep knowledge of cartoons and comics. But back then, he was a teenager in Quebec trying to make…
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Filling in the blanks: ANSI art and webcomics, Part 1
This is the first part of a multi-part series. Does ANSI art have a place in the history of webcomics? One of the first chroniclers of webcomics history thought so. In the first chapter of his 2006 book, “A History of Webcomics,” T Campbell tackled the “prehistory” of webcomics by discussing ARPAnet, ASCII art, and…
