Firstly, we’re pleased to say that EyeCandy #2, “Beatnik High” is available on the App Store for the bargain price of 59p ($0.99) and features an all new toy which should tickle you pink with it’s features. Our focus group of children found it to be incredibly engaging - when they could wrest the comic from their parents! It’s addictive to all ages.

Other than that we’ve been working like ants in order to bring you the latest and greatest comic technology. EyeCandy #2 will knock our socks off (daddio!) and what we’ve planned for EyeCandy #3 will amuse, inspire and delight! We promise!

As well as that, the busy beavers at Infurious Towers HQ have been working on something so super, so secret and so fabulous that we’re bursting at the seams to talk about it! Add to that some upcoming content deals that will make you gape in wonder and we’ve got a fabulous quarter ahead of us.

So…watch this space. (and buy EyeCandy #2!)

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!

TouchTip writes about EyeCandy

This week, Infurious released EyeCandy Issue One - Masked Marshall, an interactive comic book featuring content to appeal to broader audiences, especially kids. Comic book aside, the Infurious comic reader platform takes advantage of the unique iPhone and iPod touch to deliver cool interactive features that we just love.
…pick up EyeCandy even if you don’t have kids. It’s totally worth a buck, just to check out how some creative thinking can leverage the iPhone into a new kind of interactive reading device. We’re looking forward to future comic titles from Infurious.

Wouldn’t have put it better ourselves!

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…)

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.