 Blue Sky Ranger Keith Robinson will be at Comic-Con this week in San Diego signing prints of his artwork for the box cover of the Intellivision game Thin Ice.
The original 1986 gauche-and-ink painting is reproduced actual size, approximately 8.5 inches wide and 9 inches high on heavy 11 by 14 paper. This is a numbered limited-edition of 150, exclusively for Comic-Con. The prints will be available in the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) booth (1307/1309) for $15 each. Keith will be in the booth Thursday through Sunday (July 24 - 27) to sign them.
Keith started at Mattel Electronics in 1981 as a programmer, creating the Intellivoice game TRON Solar Sailer. Soon he entered management. He came up with the idea for Thin Ice and supervised its development. Although the game was finished in 1983, it was still unreleased when Mattel puled the plug on Intellivision production in early 1984.
Keith turned to cartooning, launching the weekly newspaper strip Making It and doing cartoons for Playboy, Cat Fancy, Dog Fancy and other magazines.
He returned to video games in 1986 when INTV Corp. finally released Thin Ice and contracted Keith to do the cover. He went on to design most of the Intellivision boxes through the rest of the decade.
Today, Keith is president of Intellivision Productions, Inc. Stop by the NCS booth and say "hello." Keith will be happy to sign any of your Intellivision items.
Speaking of which, Chris Folino, writer/director of the movie Gamers, is the writer of a new comic book series, Sparks. He will be in the Illusive Arts booth (2109) at Comic-Con autographing the books. Folino is a life-long Intellivision fan; a couple Intellivsion T-shirts appear in his Gamers. In Sparks, there is a full-page ad for Intellvision. It is essentially a smaller version of the poster [link] we sell here on our web site. After you have Folino sign the book, why not bring it on by the NCS booth and have Keith sign the ad? He'll give you a free cartoon bookmark, while they last!
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