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Sweet Shop Launches the Beta of its Digital Comic Store with 24 Publishers

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Sweet Shop is one step closer to launching its destination for comics and manga readers of all ages and interests. The company launched an invite-only beta, with apps pending approval in app stores, featuring a diverse selection of titles from 24 leading publishers across the industry.

There’s a comic book for everyone and Sweet is focused on giving readers all the tools they need to find it. Features available at launch include in-app purchases, offline reading, and the ability to download DRM-free PDFs, among others.

Soon users will also have the ability to give and receive recommendations, access sales and bundles, create reading lists, and more.

Sweet Shop was launched without venture capital money and has vowed it will not accept AI comics.

The 24 publishers are:

Image Comics
IDW Publishing
Dark Horse Comics
Oni Press
Fantagraphics
Magma
Kodansha
Mad Cave Studios

Good Trouble Comics
Panick Entertainment
Devil’s Due Studios
WhiteAsh Comics
Manga Mavericks Books
Ignition Press
Ablaze
Improper Books

Silver Sprocket
Glacier Bay
Second at Best Press
Invader Comics
Avery Hill
Rekcah
Alien Books
Living the Line

IDW Publishing comes to digital comics app Sweet Shop

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IDW Publishing will join Sweet Shop ahead of the app’s upcoming launch set for later summer 2025. IDW Publishing and Sweet Shop will be bringing comics such as Beneath the Trees and officially licensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles publisher’s works to even more potential readers in an all-new app. 

IDW will join a number of North American comics publishers, including Image Comics, as among the first to offer their robust catalog of comics to fans via Sweet Shop. Featuring the entire IDW Publishing and Entertainment catalog, as well as the Top Shelf Productions’ full list of titles, fans will have unparalleled access to some of their favorite creators, artists, and stories. 

Sweet Shop users will be able to read the library of comics on both Apple and Android devices and Manga and North American comics alike will be available on the app. Fans will be able to confidently browse and buy—either in-app or in limited DRM-free download format—from a variety of IDW and Top Shelf titles, available globally, with few exceptions. 

The app will support vertical scrolling function—a feature that will delight webcomics readers in particular—and right-to-left and left-to-right reading versatility for relevant titles. Even more features are available for viewing on Sweet Shop’s pre-launch site. Readers can sign up for the mailing list to receive updates on launch, as well as announcements on new features and a growing list of fantastic publishers coming late summer 2025. 

Image Comics joins digital comic app Sweet Shop

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Image Comics will join Sweet Shop ahead of the app’s upcoming launch set for later this Summer. The publisher and new-to-the-scene digital comics store will work in partnership to bring nearly 400 of Image’s bestselling, creator-owned titles to the shelves of the app in time for its debut.

Fantastic new titles like James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s Exquisite Corpses and Matthew Rosenberg and Stefano Landini’s We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us will join the catalog alongside popular ongoing series offerings such as the Transformers, Spawn, Ghost Machine comics, Invincible, and The Walking Dead.

Sweet Shop users will be able to read the library of comics on both Apple and Android devices and Manga and North American comics alike will be available on the app. Fans will be able to confidently browse and buy—either in-app or in DRM-free download format—from a variety of Image titles, available globally, with few exceptions. 

The app will support vertical scrolling function—a feature that will delight webcomics readers in particular—and right-to-left and left-to-right reading versatility for relevant titles. Even more features are available for viewing on Sweet Shop’s pre-launch site. Readers can sign up for the mailing list to receive updates on launch, as well as announcements on new features and a growing list of fantastic publishers coming later in 2025.