Joan Stark

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joan G. Stark, also known by her pseudonym Spunk, is a prolific ASCII artist.

Deemed by many as the "Queen of ASCII art", Joan is easily recognized by the famous initials jgs which she signs her artworks.

Joan was first exposed to the art of ASCII in the summer of 1995 and by July 1996 had taken to the creation of ASCII art. [1] From 1996-2003 she created several hundred works of art, most of which were posted to the Usenet newsgroup alt.ascii.art. Her artwork is frequently cited in books and journals which make reference to the ASCII art form.

The humorous website, asciiartfarts.com, makes frequent use of Joan's work under the fair use doctrine.

[edit] References

• Danet, Brenda (2001). Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online. Berg Publishers. ISBN 1-85973-424-3.
• Freedman, Alan (2001). Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, 9th Ed. Osborne/McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-219306-9.

[edit] External links

• Joan G. Stark's ASCII Art Gallery (frequently in excess of Geocities bandwidth quota)
• The History of ASCII Art by Joan G. Stark
• How Joan G. Stark got started with ASCII art