The Night Angel Fire Ansi Fire news for February 1997 flame on! you just melt away! welcome again to the fabulous fire combustion it s 1997 we started in 1994 and we re still going stronger than ever february is always an odd month for fire since we re kinda recovering from our january vacation by the same token our members have also had a lot of time in which to draw so we usually have quite a few high quality pieces (as if we usually don t! ) ) this month s pack is one of the better ones and from what i ve seen of this month s competetion possibly the best that the scene has produced this month hats off to fire hirez and fire ansi this month s match-up is undoubtedly a tie both divisions produced some amazing stuff i don t have much else to say so i ll let the pack speak for itself less talk more rock! call the regency fire ascii is officially dead RIP thanks again to fractal blatz and mass murderer the glue that managed to hold the division together for so long against such adversity - hal ( louse! Hey fire art pack patrons Firez is back in action following our annual winter break Our first new member of the new year Pyxis comes to us from Dark where he began as a vga artist last summer Pyxis will be adding his fantasy art creation skills and thus another genre to an already multi-faceted vga unit This month also marks the formal retirement of Surreal Logic fire s former high resolution coordinator and sub-coordinator Surreal is busy with school and a thriving (I hope ) web publishing business but will still be helping out from time to time with the creation of FireWeb Devious also leaves our member list this month because I really don t know who he is or if he exists for that matter For the first time (that I know of) fire hirez is happy to present to you a special guest artist ACiD s very own Tomppa I m particularly excited because Tomppa happens to be one of my favorite vga artists in the scene today and he should be yours too ) Perhaps we can turn the guest artist idea into a lasting tradition Finally a note about irc the fire meeting time has been changed from Wednesday nights to Friday nights partly to accomodate the euros that are in fire and partly because simply more people are around on friday nights Again this is just to allow those who don t irc much to have a time that they can plan ahead for and know that there will be people around Also d0nutz the #fire bot is back online thanks to Private Parts so things should be running a little more smoothly from now on Oh and Pinguino we re truly glad to have you around to release with us this month I really can t imagine what things would be like if you weren t here Enjoy our art and I ll see you next month -God among Lice fire hirez coord - acid and ice beware the web will soon be aflame! fireweb news - http patriot net panacea Hi this is Panacea Fire Senior in charge of Fireweb Fire is proud to be the last major group in the ansi scene to get a World Wide Web page Our web page won t just have stupid memberlists though it will be a valuable resource for the entire world We will have online international news competitive with such commercial sites as MSNBC and CNN Online It will be a service for downloading the latest music as heard on MTV and MTV2 just like MusicNOW But most importantly it will serve as a meeting place for world leaders to assemble together create treaties and make the our Earth a more peaceful place Aye FireWeb will not merely benefit ansi artists or just people that have access to the Internet FireWeb truly will be beneficial for all of God s children - Panacea living up to the true meaning of his name a dying art form we think not fuckers! yeah we re a small bunch but fire ansi packs a punch! fire ansi adds yet one more member to the roster of the illustrious golden bees this month in the form of everyone s favorite ingredient in table salt sodium sodium coming from the now decrepit and aged remains of the ACiD ansi department sports a very unique style in his latest work that really sets him apart from the norm enjoy his work i m sure there will be more coming unfortunately i couldn t reach gunthar before pack time for various reasons sorry gunny but your showing next month will be spectacular! ) i d like to personally greet eerie bisounours vade79 iodine zircus nail nosegos and panacea for a 10-man ansi team we did pretty well ) - hal fire president slackmaster extarordinaire!