Finite State Fantasies An Incredible Computer Culture Comic by Rich Didday with a forward by Raymond Langsford Matrix Publishers, Inc, Champaign Illinois, USA This astonishing comic book, published in July 1976, gives a wonderfully graphic look at the emerging culture around the kit personal computer and casts an eye far into the future of virtual worlds and shared cyberspace. See our interview with Rich himself on Finite State Fantasies and his life and times. Also see the original artwork behind this groundbreaking comic book.

finite-state-fantasie-inner.jpg Front and Back Covers cover-front.jpg cover-back.jpg A Story of Virtual Reality: ESCAPE (this astonishing piece might be the first conceptualization of a digital virtual world and avatars running on a personal computer) escape1.jpg escape2.jpg escape3.jpg escape4.jpg escape5.jpg escape6.jpg escape7.jpg escape8.jpg Parody Ad (would you buy a computer from this man?) nite-flyer.jpg Opposing Computer Manufacturers Struggle for Market Supremacey (and what else has changed?) struggle-whole.jpg Its Just Another Tool (a prescient warning) just-another-tool.jpg More about Matrix Publishers, Inc. about-matrix.jpg See Also: Our interview with Rich Didday Our photos of the original Finite State Fantasies artwork Classic Computer's pages on Classic Computer Publications (see whole scan of "Fantaises") hosted by Bill Richman Kiel Bryant Hosier's Compubots

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