InkyPen , a new comic subscription service, will be brought to the Nintendo Switch this November, making it possible for users to read comics on the handheld device. It will also be the first international non-game app to come to the eShop on the Switch, according to Variety

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The app will let comics be read in either the handheld or TV mode and will be launching at $8 per month. InkyPen will have a library of over 10,000 graphic novels, manga, and European comics.The comics will come from publishers including IDW, Dynamite, Valiant, les Humanoïdes Associés, and Andrews McMeel. InkyPen CEO Ronan Huggard said the focus of the subscription service is to bring an "all-you-can-read model to the international community."“I could never afford to truly explore comics growing up, or even at university," Huggar said. "Not because I didn’t have enough money, but because they were just too expensive for a student to justify buying. InkyPen solves this."InkyPen was created by a team of comic book fans out of Norway and Luxembourg, who also have experience in the gaming industry, and were frustrated that a comic subscription service did not exist.The Switch's popularity has continued to rise, with Nintendo revealing at the end of July that the company had sold just under 20 million units . The Mario franchise games were listed as top sellers, along with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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