InkyPen CEO talks supported comic publishers, manga content, and comic release schedules

InkyPen aims to deliver a ton of comic content to Switch owners, but just what comic publishers are included in the lineup? In an interview with Ntower, InkyPen CEO Ronan Thomas Huggard talked about the planned support.

We haven't announced everything, but one of the more spoken about publishers is IDW. And then we have Valiant Comics. They publish some of the edgier things like DC or Marvel. So they have like a single universe where a lot is connected. Andrews McNeel which covers all the syndicated comics that you can imagine, things like Sarah’s Scribbles and Garfield. Everything you've seen in the newspaper, we have access to. But we are not taking everything, we also have quality control as well. It's not a numbers game. So we also have to turn people down. We also have some manga. There are deals that are still in progress there, so I can't talk to much about them, but we will have manga. Hopefully a lot of the titles people love as well.

It's great that this comic content is coming to Switch, but what about release dates? Will physical comics see their content released digitally the same day they hit stores?

Simultaneous release is a separate discussion. I'd expect that these things will happen relatively soon but not as early as launch. That's actually a logistics question as well. These are the sort of things that we can do after we launch. So we're not going to stop. We're going to keep on developing and there will be updates. So it's not like a game in that sense. We can launch something and then we can actually change it in a way that you can't change a game to make it better. And that's sort of exciting. Especially for all the game developers it normally means that you're stuck with a lot of crude decisions even the bad ones. And we are not.