

We’ve seen a few of those, even in the super hero genre. More kids reading manga, more artists inspired by manga, both yaoi and non.ĬBB: TJ and Amal is a buddy comic strip. I’d wager that the increased visibility and popularity of manga over the past ten or fifteen years has been a big factor, though. Weaver: I’m not really sure what’s behind the trend (if it is in fact a trend). It seems like there is this new genre of yaoi-like comics made by North Americans. Weaver: I started developing the story in the summer of 2007, and began work on the comic in earnest in spring 2008.ĬBB: I stumbled across your web comic when I was doing research on another series from a similar genre, Artifice. Weaver: Thanks for interviewing me! I would prefer not to give my full name, if that’s OK.ĬBB: When did you start working on TJ and Amal?Į.K.

What’s your full name by the way, if you don’t mind?Į.K. Thank you for the opportunity to have this interview and inform our readers about your work. Let’s ask her what she thinks of who her readers are and more in this ComicBookBin interview with the creator of TJ and Amal.ĬomicBookBin: Hello E.K. TJ and Amal is part of a new wave of yaoi-inspired comic strips whose intended audience can be women, gay guys or even straight male readers. TJ and Amal is a web comic launched by cartoonist E.K Weaver who posts new pages several times a week on the series’ Website.

On their way to the East, Amal who just called off his engagement with his fiancée TJ, a slim debonair with too much life experience fall for one another. TJ and Amal is the story of two guys who met in a bar and decided to travel from San Francisco to the East Coast by car. Interviews Interview with TJ and Amal Creator - T.K.
