Tina Anderson is an American comic writer. She creates gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 comics and women's yaoi

Yaoi

In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...

, or Boys' Love. Anderson coined the term "GloBL" to encourage fans of yaoi/BL to think about implications of a BL aesthetic outside of Japanese culture. Anderson has written graphic novels and short stories that are included in collections from various publishers such as Class Comics

Class Comics

Class Comics is an independent comic books publisher, originally founded in 1995 by Patrick Fillion as Class Enterprises, which specializes in gay erotic comics. Class Comics Inc. is now run by Fillion and his partner Fraser out of Vancouver, Canada...

, Yaoi Press

Yaoi press

Yaoi Press is an independent yaoi comic publisher based in Nevada. Founded in 2004 by publisher Yamila Abraham, the company specializes in Global BL, or yaoi comics originally published outside of Asia. Yaoi Press publishes original OEL manga as well as European yaoi in translation, and features...

, Sin Factory, DramaQueen

DramaQueen

DramaQueen is a Houston based English-language publisher of domestic, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese comics founded in 2005. DramaQueen also publishes an original English-language yaoi anthology called Rush, which made its debut in 2006. RUSH ceased publishing when the company experienced...

, and Iris Print. Anderson stated in a November 2010 interview that 2011 would be her final year writing homoerotic graphic novels.

Selected works

• Loud Snow graphic novel, art by Amelie Belcher
• Games With Me Volume 1 graphic novel, (art by Lynsley Brito)
• Only Words graphic novel, (art by Caroline Monaco)
• Diplomatic Immunity (art by Caroline Monaco))
• Ungestellt featured in Lemon Law 2
• King's Masterpiece featured in Yaoi Hentai
  Yaoi Hentai
  Yaoi Hentai is a yaoi original English-language manga anthology series by various creators. This manga is considered extreme for yaoi and is reserved for mature and explicit content....
  
  
• Closed Flower featured in Saihôshi the Guardian
• Snow Demon featured in Enslaved by the Dragon
• In Motion featured in When Worlds Collide
• Roulette featured in RUSH anthology from publisher DramaQueen
  DramaQueen
  DramaQueen is a Houston based English-language publisher of domestic, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese comics founded in 2005. DramaQueen also publishes an original English-language yaoi anthology called Rush, which made its debut in 2006. RUSH ceased publishing when the company experienced...
  
  
• Gadarene novel written with cb. Potts

External links

• Official Tina Anderson Site
• Interview with Tina Anderson at Anime News Network
  Anime News Network
  Anime News Network is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, Japanese popular music and other otaku-related culture within North America, Australia and Japan. Additionally, it sometimes features similar happenings throughout the Anglosphere and elsewhere in the...
  
  
• Interview with Tina Anderson at Publishers Weekly
  Publishers Weekly
  Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...