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From: bgriffin@ic.sunysb.edu (Eli the bearded)
Subject: forwarded article
Date: 1996/04/12
Message-ID: <4kko5v$c8v@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>#1/1
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organization: the-rapist is a poor choice of a name for the profession
keywords: actually, it'll look ridiculous in all cases
x-grepfood: My spleen has a Cantor and Siegel green card -- NSA series.
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
x-us-congress: Moronic fucks.

The following is an article I saw in another newsgroup.
The art isn't spectacular but it is used well to do
something I have not seen others do with ascii: multi-
panel comics.

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From: Zvi Gilbert <gilbert@zot.io.org>
Subject: comic strip


=========================================================================
Comic strip                                                by Zvi Gilbert
=========================================================================
| As the snow     | John mused on   | I'm so abstract!| ...itself an ab-| 
| fell in the *   | the futility of | Just an encoded | straction of    |
| electronic      | his existence...| electronic image| nature! Good    |
| world...     *  | *               | intended to con-| grief! Time to  |
|        *  *     |       <<Shit!>> | vey the impres- | go listen to    |
|   *      *      |  *    ./        | sion of a "real"| "Musiquarium"   |
|     *        *  |      0      *   | comic...        | and dance in the| 
|    *    *     * | *   \|/   *     |    \            | snow.           |
|      *    *  *  |   *  |          |   ___________   |       \         |
|_________________|_____/_\_________|_/(John's head)\_|________0_<-Earth|

 MORAL: Stevie Wonder is a good cure for existential angst.


--Zvi 
gilbert@io.org
he is marching by the warehouse where the drapes of Roth are stored