The demand was crazy.”Īs TJ and Amal moves to print, Iron Circus will be working toward new creator-owned projects. would sell out of books on Saturday, sometimes early Saturday. Trotman wanted to publish the book because of the “flawed” characters in Weaver’s queer love story-“one of the strengths of E.K.'s work is how human it is”-and because of “the general amount of chatter I saw about TJ and Amal online.” At comic conventions, Trotman said, “E.K. Iron Circus will publish an omnibus hardcover and softcover edition collecting the entire series in one volume as well as offering a variety of bonus content. Weaver self-published three print volumes of the series, which chronicles a road trip by two young men who fall in love and much more as they travel across the country. Weaver, TJ and Amal ran as a webcomic from 2009 to 2014, attracting about 5,000 unique readers a month. Weaver will use her share of the funding to illustrate a three-part epilogue to TJ and Amal. Iron Circus will take a share of the funds raised for operating and printing costs, and "after expenses are covered, the vast, vast majority will get piped over to E.K., because that's how it should be," Trotman said. She'll also submit the book to Diamond Comics Distributors for sale to the public via the comic book store marketplace.
Trotman will handle distribution of rewards to the project’s Kickstarter backers and make arrangements for selling the book directly to her mailing list of retailers. Using a Kickstarter campaign that ended March 26, Trotman raised $65,601 (the original goal was $18,000) to publish TJ and Amal. Trotman said the new book represents what she wants Iron Circus to be: “an inclusive publisher, putting out work that people are hungry for, by creators traditionally underrepresented or ignored by mainstream comics” And now I have this skillset and these resources that aren't necessarily creative, but are definitely useful to creatives.”
“I was forced to figure out the unexciting, tedious parts of publishing. I'd actually characterize my ventures into anthology coordination and so forth as an extension of my creativity,” Trotman said.
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