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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

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