iCE iCE iCE iCE iCE iCE NFO NFO NFO NFO NFO NFO at tt M A R C H 1 9 9 8 1 Hip hop hooray from the phattest beat-bustin g s this side of Kuwait With md apox and the 609 posse as my dj iCE is back again and we re bound to sell This month s pack was origionally designed to come with a small attached bag of badges and pencils and the like but the marketing problems would have been too much and the idea was scrapped 2 The guards kept everyone inside the grounds on our spacious compound in the glorious Florida Everglade swamp Even better nobody needed to be fed to Mr Balkie - the happy hungry ambidextrous and downright playful alligator who feeds on the artists who don t run so quickly Not a single soul left this month 3 Accidentally stolling by our compound s main gate on his daily hike down from Canada we nabbed Mad-3d whose 3d talents speak for themself We were just about to drop him into the dripping jaws of Mr Balkie when he mentioned that he can render a little 4 Artist Update! We were afraid our very own Mant s was lost to the world but we re glad to report that he is in fact still living and working as the lead artist on a new upcoming Sir-Tech game entitled X-Fire which seems to be a 3D-isometric style game Needless to say we couldn t be happier for him and it s easy to see that he hasn t lost his creative flare while in the corporate world Check out his pics this month! If you have any interest in finding out more about the game check out http cgw gamespot com news 2b0a html 5 To those of you who were paying attention V2 the new web site is still underway and in approaching completion at a feverish pace For a quick teaser of what can be expected imagine being able to search for every ansi greater than 50k that was done by multiple artists where Count Zero was one of the artists Then you could look at a map to see where your favorite artist lives and travel to our message bases to take part in our virtual community 6 iCE has dipped into another scene with it s cooperative work on Retrocade the upcoming arcade game emulator iCE has been working over the past few months with some extremely talented coders to develop the ultimate arcade gaming experience on your PC We expect the first release to be out sometime within a month so stay tuned to the releases section on WWW ICE ORG as well as WWW RETROCADE COM for more information! 7 The first batch of our ice t-shirts will soon be rolling off the conveyor belts! Stay tuned for updates! 8 This month the award for Artist of the Month(TM) goes to Jae! Jae has cranked out 3 great pics this month and has been drawing constantly since late 1993 when he first joined iCE! He has shown that his style is flexible doing cartoon ansis then shaded ansis then moving on to airbrushed vga and finally rendering You have no doubt seen his art before but stop this month and take an extra long gander at his work - it s truly amazing 9 We hope you enjoy our pack this month! We ve put a lot of effort sweat and other bodily fluids into it! Till next month tootles! - Slothy Cold and Ugly Force Ten Mass Delusion