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.
(If you’re viewing this post from an iPhone/iPod touch - don’t bother with the links, they won’t work - rather go into the App store and search for ‘masked’ that’ll turn it up!)
To help make this easier for you to pass along to EVERYONE you know, the above is the official link to the iTunes store.
Don’t forget, it’s only 99cents (56pence) so dirt cheap, and I guarantee* you’ll like it.
Please leave comments on the App store - it’ll all help us build a case for the viability of the iPhone / iPod touch as a medium for comics (also we’re vain and need the attention…)
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’…
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…)
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.
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.
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