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Blue Pilot iPhone Comic Reader App Video

August 22nd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: iPhone apps

Tags: Comic Book Reader • iphone reader

The developers at Blue Pilot software have created a comic book reader application especially for the iPhone that will allow cartoonists and comic book creators to create and distribute iPhone comics, and offer them for sale as apps through the iTunes store!

According to the Blue Pilot Software website, “Comic Reader is our generic comic book reader. This allows any indie comic writer and artist to set up and publish their comics to Apples AppStore. Having the ability to view not only the final content but also, pencil drawing, line artwork and colour layers.

This application has been specifically designed and written for the iPhone and iPod Touch and as such lends itself to the full experience and ease of use synonymous with Apple’s technology.”

The demo video below shows the power of this app with the iPhone comic called Murderdrome. With the possibilties on display in the video, this could be a great app for reading comic books on your iPhone, as well as for creating rich and unique comic book content especially for the iPhone. As a cartoonist and a comic book lover (and a rabid iPhone user), I’m pretty excited about this one!

iPhone Comic Book Reader app from Blue Pilot Software

I just found out about this and I’m gonna find out more as soon as I can. But in the meantime watch the demo video below of the upcoming Murderdrome comic book as viewed on Blue Pilot’s ComicReader application for iPhone.

Update: more on the Murderdrome iPhone comic here: http://www.hypergeek.ca/2008/08/icomics-future-of-comics-brought-by-pj_24.html

9 Comments

• At 2008.08.22 06:18, Howard said:
  

  This looks very promising – I hope there will be enough content for it. The swipe to reveal pencils and inks is very cool! Overall it looks like a cut above the clickwheel reader which I’ve also tried.

  Thanks for this site too btw.

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• At 2008.08.22 06:29, Sherm said:
  

  Hi Howard…I haven’t tried Clickwheel yet because the content seems pretty limited. I’m interested to hear what you liked and disliked about it. Thanks for the kind words about the blog, too ^_^

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• At 2008.08.24 14:05, infuriouscomics » Blog Archive » Internet Buzz for Murderdrome said:
  

  [...] iphonecomicbookreader.com [...]

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• At 2008.08.24 15:32, infuriouscomics » Blog Archive » Some more links…some more talk of MURDERDROME said:
  

  [...] iphonecomicbookreader.com With the possibilties on display in the video, this could be a great app for reading comic books on your iPhone, as well as for creating rich and unique comic book content especially for the iPhone. As a cartoonist and a comic book lover (and a rabid iPhone user), I’m pretty excited about this one! [...]

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• At 2008.08.25 03:46, mj said:
  

  Thanks for the kind words. We’re overwhelmed with input at the moment both from comic book fans who want it on their phone and creators who want to get their stuff out there AND get paid for it.

  The web site is coming together – see what early leaks do!!!!

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• At 2008.08.25 17:28, iPhone News: iVerse Comic Book Reader for iPhone and iPod Touch | iPhone Comic Book Reader said:
  

  [...] a look at the video demo below. None of the features look anything NEARLY as cool as the iPhone ComicReader app (now called Infurious) featured in the previous post, but maybe it’s too early to [...]

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• At 2008.08.26 19:00, Mike Cane said:
  

  Don’t get too excited. It’s been banned by Apple!

  http://mikecane2008.wordpress......omic-book/

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• At 2008.09.24 22:52, PJ Holden said:
  

  Hi there! Thought you’d like to know, EyeCandy #1 – our new kids comic (built using the same engine that Murderdrome used) is NOW available to download from the app store (http://tinyurl.com/4qjr4p) it’s under the Blue Pilot software banner (since it’s a kids comic). Please let us know what you think, we intend to make this a monthly kids comic (and it’s the first monthly comic created exclusively for the iPhone/iPod touch, so we’re pretty excited)

  - pj

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• At 2008.10.13 14:31, Touchtip said:
  

  Touchtip has a nice write up of EyeCandy which was followed up by an excellent interview with Matt Johnston from Infurious Comics. PJ, your work is great and we love it on the iPhone running the Infurious comic reader software. Great stuff.

  EyeCandy Review:
  http://www.touchtip.com/iphone.....pod-touch/

  Interview with Matt Johnston from Infurious:
  http://www.touchtip.com/iphone.....us-comics/

  - dean

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