Will you link me?

Short answer: Yes, probably.
Slightly longer answer: As long as your site is related to comics, art, litterature, design or something creative, chances are good I'll link you. (Links back to me are always appreciated).

Why do you update five days a week with only medium art, instead of once a week with a smashing page?

Because mostly, I want to tell a story. Obviously I also want my art to be smashing, but let's face it: as long as I make no money out of it I can't spend 25 hours worth of work on a single page. I spend, like, three. Total.
But it is really about telling a story. One page a week? That's 52 pages a year. I recently passed page 100. I fully expect to pass page 300, too. Now, if I were to publish 52 pages a year, that would take roughly 5 years. See the math there? Yes.
I'd rather live in the hopes that five years from now I am able to spend more time and energy telling a lot of stories, than having made a smashing version of Beauty and the Beast that everybody grew tired of waiting for.

Will Harrazade and Beast have sex? Or marry?

Right. Answering yes or no here would be a major spoiler, wouldn't it?
What I can say is that yes, several people in this story will get laid. If you have trouble with that, then please stop reading. If you expect wild pr*n on every page from now on, you'll be very disappointed. I recently reread the manuscript; there is far more talk than sex. And then more talk. And talk. And some Skuggs. And talk.
Okay? Okay! :)

Why make a webcomic of a story everybody already knows?

Because it's my favourite fairytale. It always has been. And I've read countless versions of it. Some are easily recognisable to the 'original', others are only using the main plot. I still love it. And upon realizing that most of my writings carry elements of this story in them, I thought it might be a good idea to simply 'get it out of my system' sooner rather than later. So far it has been great fun! :D

Do you know what will happen, or do you make this story up as you go?

I have a finished manuscript of this story. I know how it begins, I know how it will end, and even if I may make some slight alterations to the parts in the middle, I know what's there, too. This is simply because I'm not smart enough to make everything up as I go. Writing the whole thing down first, then draw, seem much easier to me.

Do you have a buffer of pages? And if so, how many?

I used to. When I started this project I had almost three months worth of finished pages. They are all gone by now. I hope I'll be able to miraculously make a new one.

That's all so far, folks:)
-Elise-

Elise Otterlei © 2009

elise@eliseotterlei.no