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So we actually made it through another year. Time to let go of the past and welcome in the new, and what a year we will have for you all.

First off, Paul is heading to the New York Comic Convention, to pound the halls and show off our comic application, I’m heading out to the South by South West festival in Austin, Texas, this March and hopefully be on my way to this years WWDC again, can hardly wait.

We should, all being well, have a some big announcements to make at the start of this year. I’m looking to getting back to the EyeCandy work and getting on with my own applications again.

Keep watching here or my twitter feed on Philip Orr as well as our EyeCandy twitter feed at EyeCandy Comics.

We would first like to thank the guys at Apple, without whom this wouldn’t have been possible.

Yup we seem to have beome a staff favourite application and now our comic application will be seen by many more people the world over, well in GB anyway.

Unfortunately we have been very successful in generating interest by showing off our latest comic creations. I say “unfortunately” as this has put a bit of a burden on our workload, and I know how much people love the EyeCandy comics, it is taking up a little too much of our time at the moment and so we will be putting a temporary halt on that until the workload eases up a little.

We are now looking at putting the third issue of EyeCandy out in January and will be showing off the latest extra. This will be one to wait on.

On another note, we’re working very hard with a great company in the states and looking to get a whole slew of comic content out by early January and has some really neat graphical user interfaces. More on this in January.

EyeCandy 3 is getting ready for action. This is a real nice little story and again you can colour in any of the comic panels yourself. The story is by John Gatehouse and artwork by none other than Dave Windett. More on this later.

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.

The final pieces of EyeCandy #2 are getting put together as we speak, and looking for submission to the Apple Store this week. This one is a real corker. The comic title is “Beatnik High” and is about a group of hippies trying to save their hippie hairdos and quiffs from the new Headmaster, an ex Drill Sergeant

Again each comic screen can be hand coloured, or should that be finger coloured, and as usual, features a great little extra, which will have you all buzzing with excitement.

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In a further note, we are upgrading EyeCandy issue #1, Masked Marshal, to include some of the nice changes from the latest comic. Users who previously purchased Mask Marshal will get the free update automatically when it’s available from the AppStore.

The update has a better painting facility and nicer looking horse in the extras section as well as a few bug fixes.

That’s it for the moment, but we’re currently getting the next EyeCandy up and running, and what would Christmas be without some sort of treat, tease or what.

Philip

Paul Holden has just returned from BICS, or Birmingham International Comic Convention, now you know why they shortened it to BICS.

Paul has returned with the giddy excitement of a 5 year old just about to get stuck into candy floss. His main reason for going in the past was to sit and do drawings for people at the convention and chat about his work. This year was a little different.

Armed with his trusty iPhone he took the comic con by storm showing of our EyeCandy comics, including our newest version called “Beatnik High”, news of this later. The amounts of Ohhs and Ahhs was amazing and not a single negative comment about it. In fact, people that had played about with it were herding up others to share the experience and a good time was had by all.

Now Paul is back there is no rest. Lots to do and as usual, not enough hours in the day.