Take 2 teaspoons of Notepad, add a tablespoon of Paint Shop Pro and mix it with a cup of Emacs.
Add a pinch of knowledge about ASCII Art and the result is: JavE :-)
Although not strictly ASCII art, this site features collections of stories and images made with combinations of ASCII and Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, etc.) Mona Kikkomaso Spidermaso with ASCII art characters!
EDASCII is an ASCII art editor for Linux written in Tcl/Tk. It allows fast and easy manipulation of ASCII drawings.
FEATURES:
8 color images;
Cut, copy and paste part of the image;
Scale image;
Rotate image;
Flip image; and more.