With TJ and Amal, I gave myself permission to draw and lay out a page in the way that felt most comfortable, and making comics finally became enjoyable something I could do for years.ĮK : Since I was a little kid. I kept forcing myself to draw the way I thought comics “had to be” –big splashy layouts, dynamic panelling– which made my art look stiff and unnatural. I tried to make comics several times before then, and had done some gag strips and fan art comics and such, but nothing longer than 5 or 6 pages. Soon I discovered indie works and started buying Strangers in Paradise, Berlin, Instant Piano, Dork…ĪC: When did you decide you wanted to make comics?ĮK : When I started on TJ and Amal, basically. I was officially hooked, and started snapping up translated manga and old X-Men issues from the 50 cent bins at the local comic shops. Around the same time, a classmate introduced me to Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed.
How were you first exposed to comics?ĮK Weaver: I always loved the funny papers as a kid, but didn’t get exposed to comic books until the mid-90s, when a friend’s brother showed me his collection of X-Men comics.
Read on for the origin of TJ and Amal as well as other projects EK has in the works.Īll-Comic: EK, Thanks for joining us. I was already familiar with her webcomic TJ and Amal and took the opportunity to ask her for an interview. EK is a full-time tech illustrator and in her spare time makes webcomic for her and other peoples’ enjoyment. Thanks to the success of WEBCOMIC RAMPAGE, an event I highly recommend to all of you, I was able to speak to many webcomic creators. EK Weaver of Austin, Texas was one of the many guest at the show.
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