Matt Johnston, one of the infurious three (FREE the infurious THREE!) gets interview by www.touchtip.com, you can read it here.

We LOVE reviews. Phil Barnett, has written a great review of our first comic (number 2 is coming!) and here it is: 

Review of Eye Candy: Masked Marshal #1 “Mah Pony Must Be Punished”
By Phil Barnett, aged 12 (writer of Finland, Finland, Finland)

 So the Masked Marshal. It’s a very good and funny comic. The artwork is amazing and very well designed for theiPhone. (My dad’s iPhone 3G anyway.)

 

 The software via which you read the comic is amazing, especially that with a flick of the finger up and down, you can change the panels between pencils, inks, and full colours. This would help children who are artistic, children who like drawing ‘sausage people’ can copy it off the screen and see how the characters and the panels develop from rough planning to full coloured panels. I’d love to see even more stages shown between blank page and finished panel.

 The extras are as brilliant as the main comic. The idea of being allowed to recolour the comic is genius! (But it would be nice to be able to save the drawings you create [a fix is coming! - PJH].)  How could I not mention one of the greatest extras (I feel): the ability to make the pony’s eyes go wibble wobble just by shaking the iPhone. [Shake it harder - it'll neigh! - PJH]

 That’s all the good things.

 Now all the bad… honestly, I couldn’t find any! The comic is better than I could have thought of.  In all the hoopla of how good the software and format are, please remember that it’s a very funny comic.

 For future updates I wouldn’t mind seeing a animated version of it. Or under the extras could be a quiz about the story. Also a little bio of the creators and characters.  Or even a link to the creators’ websites.

With the painting, it’s very easy to go over the ink lines and an option for younger children to keep the colours inside the ink lines would probably make it more enjoyable for them (and for adults who can’t do it without that option. No names mentioned, of course, eh Dad?).

 To finish my review of this brilliant comic, I think it’s a very good app and is perfect for younger children.

Yeah! Thanks Phil - we’re all happy you like it - if anyone else wants to send us a review (and there’s some crackers on the iTunes website) we’ll be more than happy to print them. Not only that, but if you see anything you think could be better - we’ll do our darn-tooten’ist best to try and make it better!

-pj 

So, the BICS (Birmingham International Comic Show) was this weekend. It’s taken me a couple of days to claw back the sleep that I had to forgo to really enjoy the event. 

In lieu of an actual report on what I did, here’s a couple of links:

Paul Cornell (writer of Dr Who, Captain Britain and MI:13 and more…)

Said this: 

But most importantly, and I really think this is some sort of breakthrough, and something that kept making people go ooh and ahh all through the convention, if you have an IPhone or an IPod Touch, I’d like to direct your attention to this on ITunes:

http://tinyurl.com/4qjr4p

This being P.J.Holden’s [..] comic for children, on the IPhone, for 99c a go, or the British equivalent. The oohs and ahhs (and P.J. got serious people from various serious organisations I shall not name coming over to have a look at his phone as word of mouth spread) were because this is the first comic project that I’ve seen that really takes advantage of the mobile form. 

 

John Reppion and Leah Moore said this:

The main buzz at the table, and the con in general was the Eyecandy iphone application created by PJ Holden and written by Al Ewing which is so innovative, and cool and fun to use, it made everyone at the con immediately start thinking of things to do for them. Download the first issue for 99c (0r 50p)here, and watch them like a hawk in case you miss a second of their meteoric rise to fame and stardom!

I’ll be one of the guests at BICS this year. I’m sure I’ll be wearing one of the patented Murderome T-Shirts (though maybe not the same one for the entire con…)

I’ll be getting in at 9:00pm on the Friday (not ideal, but the bloody airline decided to change my time to this later time) so you’ll all be getting drunk by then. But don’t be afraid to say hello and ask if you can see ‘Murderdrome’…

See you there…

In answer to this and this

The handing out of t-shirts were NOT a protest (silent or otherwise) - we just thought it’d be kinda neat to hang out with everyone queuing at the opening of the new Apple Store in Belfast and to give out some free t-shirts (and, heck, we’re Apple nerds too - we wanted to see the new place). A jolly time was had by all, we passed out t-shirts, we showed off EyeCandy and we had, generally, a good laugh. 

Now back to your regularly scheduled stuff.

Oh: re the t-shirts, we have no more, but we’re looking at getting some new ones printed up, we’ll get them up asap…

Once youtube have finished encoding, you should find, below, a 2min 56sec video of some real, genuine reaction to EyeCandy - sadly, my camera ran out of storage after only half a dozen people - but have a look at this:

(WARNING: This video contains a little bit of potty mouth - I’ll try and correct it - but be warned…)

Great little video from the BBC about the people waiting in line.

But what’s this?

And… this? 

And… uhm? 

And… more? seriously?

Is that the last one? Oh thank god. I’ve promised ALL of those people artwork.

That’s Murderdrome Official Merchandise, you maggots!

These are works in progress, but, if you’re in the Belfast apple store queue on Friday night/early Saturday morning, you could well be getting a freebie…

UPDATE

I’ll be at the Apple Store either late Friday night (around 11ish) or early Saturday morning (around 6ish) (or maybe even both times). Take a FREE T-Shirt (limited numbers!), get your photo in the local press (if they’re there!) and let me know about it (at our usual address) upon verification, I’ll send you some of my 2000AD artwork - ORIGINAL, PUBLISHED 2000AD comic art. Bargain.

(*One entry per person!)

So, just received a much anticipated email that tells me that… yes… project codenamed ‘Little Ducks’ can go ahead (I’m starting to think that my ‘Secret Project Name Generator’ should be on the App store).

What is it? I can’t say. I’d love to say. But I can’t. But… it’ll be free. And brilliant.

Now we now we can go ahead, it shouldn’t be too long before we have a working mock up. And from there, a final comic.

Not ones for sitting on our hands lamenting, infurious has been furiously working on it’s next big project. And here it is: EyeCandy - comics for kids. For 99cents you get a goofy little comic (featuring all the same coolness as the murderdrome comic, ie you can skim through to the inks and to the pencils - which are super simplified to help kids copy the artwork) and we’ve added some funky extras - every panel can, with the press of a button, become a colouring in page. Up will pop a little palette and off you go colouring. And, is if that wasn’t fun enough, every issue will feature a very cool little ‘toy’ - issue 1 has a googley eyed horse. Shake him and listen for the whiney… (While his eyes roll around his head…)

Watch it on youtube, and, in the next week or so, you’ll be able to download it for your iPhone/iPod touch for just 99cents.