                             Artists News
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   Mute of Inforno Graffitti has the following to annouce about the group;
    'I and co-leader Godfather did talk a bit about the future of Ig, and we
    found out that since no one of us really were interested in organizing
    the group, we've now (nearly) turned it into a friendship group only.
    So Ig isn't that much of an ascii-group anymore, if there's any questions,
    then just mail me. I'm planning to join a "real" ascii-group soon, future
    will tell wich.'

   Cyber God (cG!) of Epsilon Design renamed to Dharma. But then again
    changed back to Cyber God.

   Aerosol was formed by UK-mates Nemesis, Blue and Karlos. Which also ment
    that they left their old ascii-groups. We all wish this new english crew
    good luck.

   Remorse member Asphixia renamed himself to Justin Hale.

   Former Trank member, Cannibal, renamed himself to Cannabis and merged into
    Remorse. Also the whole crew Remorse has been heavily reformed. Check it
    out at this section and at the Group-information in this issue.

   Whodini has got the following to say about Trank Ascii, and Remorse;
    Trank, the group is dead by now. But the inner clique (what we used to call
    the Wu-Trank) is still alive.
    Remorse did by the way release it's first pack back in 1994, at the first
    of December, by then the group was controlled by Necromancer & Necronite.
    After the firth pack, which was released May 1995, Remorse breakes up and
    in November 1996 Trank Ascii and Acid merge and revive Remorse. So far
    Remorse has released a total of about 30 packs. And as we all could se are 
    the R-releases some of the most common ones in the file-dir's of today.

   Independent artist Vizier renamed to Orthex and released his first pack.
    His second production was released under the Tropic Ascii label. The group
    he did create himself together with Horizon in April 1997.

   Rasta has done some serious updates on the Epsilon Design homepage at
    http://www.ion.com.au/~rasta. And also lotsa new homepages from various
    gruops are being developed. Check out the Homepage-part for more info.
    Rasta also liked to announce here in the Gazette that the rumours about
    him being kicked from Epsilon Design was false. He's still in the group.

   Vintage is a new oldschool Ascii-competition that will be held every
    sunday from 3:00 to 4:00 PM central standard time. It's arranged by
    Sargon and it's a logodrawing in one hour -contest. With the guys present
    in #Ascii on the IRC as judges.
    Latest time it was held Tango won followed by Mjay, Squish, Trooper,
    Crusader, Horizon, Speedevil, Discyple, Sargon, Mortify and Zerohour.
    The results and logos are released in a weekly result-text, Vintage*.Txt.
    This production only was done once though. Where are the next issues?

   Pc-ascii'r Feral had a small war with some Remorse members about old-
    school style-ripping. We all hope that the pc-scene wont do what the amiga-
    scene did some year ago with all them pathetic wars about styles which
    resulted in neverending amounts of small, stupid text-files.

   Am I the only one who thinks that the amount of released collections
    seem to be only about of 1/4 of what it was half an year ago?
    Behemoth agreed and claimed that it might be like this due to the fact
    that many of the former artists sell their 'drawing-tools' (amigas) and
    leave the scene, silently thu. Is it like this? Lets hope not. Anyhow,
    the activity of today is a disaster.

   Art Bomb by Mark Ryder and some others closed down suddenly after only
    two releases. The reason was heavy lack of support.

   Altern, an old un-known local group was reformed by members Tommy and Inco
    and this is the group Tommy finally belongs to, although he's gotten
    plenty of great offers from other groups after he in autumn 1996 left
    Epsilon Design.

   Ascii Attack is a new project by H2o of Arclite, which is an Internet-
    based voting page where you vote for your favorite ascii-artist and
    production etc. The votings will later get collected and released at the
    same adress and as an textfile. The first issue is planned to be released
    the first of June this summer. The adress to go visit is:
    http://members.aol.com/ansiattack/index.htm

    And when I spoke to H2o he announced the follwoing things about himself
    and Arclite;
    'Well, I'm just doing a new collection (Al-Java.Txt) and the Ascii Attack
    will be released soon, first issue at 01.06.97, at Inet and as an Textfile
    for Boards .. thats pretty much all! Not much up with Arclite otherwise.'

   8ohms is also a new ascii-vote project done by polish artist Boobba. The
    voting part is snailmail-based and could only be sent to polish adresses,
    but more interesting is that you could write to the co-author Raptor at
    raptor2@free.polbox.pl and ask about 8ohms, and that the latest issue
    should be available at plukwa.pdi.net and from many aminet sites.

   Tropic Ascii is a new ascii-group created by Orthex and Horizon from
    Finland. Strode, Spermwhale, Daytona and Venturus joined up with this
    new squad pretty fast.

   Treach told me some time ago he had an new Contra colly coming out and
    Stratos has heard about him being the new leader of Contra - which proves
    that the cool group still might be around. Let's hope for that.

