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A blight that has bedeviled Kinloch for seven years is finally shrinking. Over the past week, workers have begun gnawing at a 6-acre mountain of shingles and other solid waste.
It wasn't always like this. Two derelict buildings on the site began as schools: Kennedy Junior High and Kinloch Senior High. Later they served as City Hall and a community center.
#environment #dumping #waste #stl #stlouis #kinloch #missouri #history #localnews #localjournalism #datajournalism
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RE: https://digipres.club/@kirkman/116241827181329943
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)
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ansiart #textmode #textart #comics #webcomics #history #computerhistory #longreads
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Tonight I succeeded in bringing a 33-year-old vaporware BBS game back to life!
After Steve Turnbull sent me the C source code to his unfinished IGS blackjack game "Wildcardz!", I ported it to Javascript. Now I can run it on my Synchronet BBS!
It's a really impressive IGS game. I doubt any ANSI BBS card game could compare visually.
Want background? Check out my history of IGS:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/?order=asc#atari #atarist #digipres #igs #textmode #textart #retrocomputing #bbs #retrogaming
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One last "Calvin and Hobbes"-related memory:
In 2014, Bill Watterson emerged from hibernation to ghost-draw one week of "Pearls Before Swine" strips.
I was pretty certain I had figured out the gimmick on the first day … but I couldn’t convince the St. Louis Post-Dispatch features department to report on it.
So I did it myself:
https://www.joshrenaud.com/family/archives/2014/06/the-cartooning-beat.html#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #newspapers #localnews #news #stlouispostdispatch #pearlsbeforeswine
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I wasn't an ANSI artist in the 1990s, but more recently I've been creating animations in the Atari ST's obscure "IGS" format.
I'm most proud of an original "Calvin and Hobbes" animation I released last year that shows what might have happened if Calvin had owned _two_ cardboard boxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_riObN32o&t=347s
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #igs #instantgraphicsandsound #atarist #atari #textmode
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ANSI artist Eerie is the subject of my latest in-depth #retrocomputing profile:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and-inspector-dangerfuck/Eerie drew some amazing Calvin portraits at the end of 1994 — even though he had grown up influenced more by the tradition of French and Belgian bandes dessinées.
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #ansiart #ansi #bbs #textmode
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"Calvin and Hobbes" was a major influence and subject for ANSI artists of the 1990s.
https://16colo.rs/tags/content/calvin
The characters were so funny, so well-drawn, so iconic. And the timing: the strip's 1985-95 run coincided almost exactly with the rise and fall of BBSing.
Calvin's irreverence was just icing for us teens.
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #ansiart #ansi #bbs #textmode
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"It's a magical world ..."
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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the final "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip by Bill Watterson.
It would be hard to overstate how much this strip meant to teenagers like me growing up during its 1985-95 run.
I'm proud that my own kids can quote it today — and at length!
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory
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Looking for a fun indoor project to try during your Christmas break? Have a LEGO Mindstorms kit? Then you might want to try building my Viper Printer v3.0!
It's a EV3-based dot-matrix printer.
https://www.joshrenaud.com/family/archives/2021/06/revisiting-my-dot-matrix-ev3-lego-printer.htmlModels and Python code here:
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At KansasFest a few weeks ago, I shared the story of cartoonist Ya'akov Kirschen's quixotic quest to break into the computer industry.
Based on years of research, this presentation has it all: old video games, comics, Jewish education, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5VwsyZXZGs
#apple #apple2forever #gamedev #videogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #history #jewish #comicHistory #cartoon