At the height of the 1992 presidential election, Don Lokke Jr. began publishing ANSI art political cartoons.
He called his digital comic strips "telecomics," and he used them to channel the skepticism and anger felt by everyday Americans about broken political promises and the looming economic recession.
Lokke would draw nearly 300 telecomics by 1995 as part of his business syndicating and selling unique online content to the sysops of bulletin board systems.
By then the great migration from BBSes to the World Wide Web was well underway. Lokke jumped ship, too, and moved his businesses to the web. His ANSI telecomics were soon forgotten, and many of them were lost.
Decades later, I unearthed 145 of them.
This is my in-depth profile of Lokke's work. It's a unique look back in time.
At the height of the 1992 presidential election, Don Lokke Jr. began publishing ANSI art political cartoons.
He called his digital comic strips "telecomics," and he used them to channel the skepticism and anger felt by everyday Americans about broken political promises and the looming economic recession.
Lokke would draw nearly 300 telecomics by 1995 as part of his business syndicating and selling unique online content to the sysops of bulletin board systems.
By then the great migration from BBSes to the World Wide Web was well underway. Lokke jumped ship, too, and moved his businesses to the web. His ANSI telecomics were soon forgotten, and many of them were lost.
Decades later, I unearthed 145 of them.
This is my in-depth profile of Lokke's work. It's a unique look back in time.