YOU ASK, I TELL. This should clear up a few things. I hope. These are questions for the comic as a concept, really. If you want more information about the characters or setting, check out Concession's Wikifur article. Feel free to add to it!

First some basic info...
Concession is run by a privately-distributed webcomic code written by A. Lillian Gist specifically (sorta) for Concession. Ain't she great?
Concession's RSS feed is done by RSSpect.
Concession is coded on Macromedia Dreamweaver 8; the comic itself is done with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Macromedia Flash 8.

The comic font on Concession is called Immelfont and is a custom-made, private use font based on my handwriting.
The title font is Century Gothic.

So anyways...

Why did you choose the Tuesday-Friday update schedule? It's not a normal update schedule.
When Concession started, it only updated on Fridays. I felt that it would mentally work best for me if I had the whole of the working week to work on a comic, and then had the weekend to rest. If I didn't set it up that way, I'd rest on the weekend anyways, which would disrupt things.
When I decided to start doing another strip per week - an additional black-and-white strip, which eventually became color - I needed to find a good place to put it so as to give myself plenty of time between each update. Tuesday seemed a good place, it's in the middle of two Fridays, sorta.

How is the lizard hierarchy set up?
I cover this in the wiki.

What got you into drawing the comic?
When I was working at the movie theatre, I slowly started to gather ideas for comics. They started as dialogues, consisting of things I wished I could say to customers. I'm not totally sure why they came out in comic form. I had probably started reading web comics at that time, but honestly, I can't remember.

How do you create the randomly generated characters?
I cover this, too, in the wiki.

Why exactly did you choose a Pangolin for Roland to be?
Blame Ursula Vernon.
I wanted Roland to be an uncommon creature, and I wanted him to have a very down-to-earth feeling to him. So I did some thinking, and I remembered this painting. Pangolins are very cool looking creatures, and they deserve more respect.

Will you father my children?
I'll plant the seed, but I won't reap the harvest.

What web comics inspire you?
Attending a panel by Mookie at Anime Boston 06 was the final inspirational push I needed to put my plans for Concession into full motion. In terms of inspirational comics, though, I think I blame VG Cats for getting me into web comics at all. Aside from that, I think the only comic that really influences Concession is Fletcher Apts. It has such intricate, detailed strips... It's hard not to be a little bit inspired by the effort he puts into it.

Do you have any intention on making some minor/not as popular characters becoming more integrated with the story?
It's impossible to say, isn't it? I had no idea Nicole would become popular, or at all important in the plot. So I guess you'll have to wait and see.

Do you have any plans on publishing Concession?
Absolutely not :D
There are a number of reasons why Concession, in it's current incarnation, can never be put into book form. First off, the comic length is very inconsistant, with some being only two rows long, others stretching to eight. I can't imagine how to make the lay out of the book work with that problem. Also, a lot of the older comics (anything before the Chelsie Saga) don't exsist in high-res format. See the version on the site? That's all that's left.
The second problem is all the blatent copyright violations I've done. Pikachu, Orbitz Gum, Time Squad, iPod, Zune, various movie posters... There's no way to get around this. Not to mention the images by other artists I used for posters and paintings in backgrounds.
Concession was never designed to be published. Since the beginning, I made the descision to ignore this possibility. Concession is built to exsist as it is and nothing more.
There are other options though. It's not impossible to concider publishing one or two "best of" collections, where I re-draw selected strips and put them into a book. But a publisher would have to give me a pretty damn good offer for that.

How hard is it to put out a comic twice a week? in other words, how much work is put in with the writing and the drawing?
It takes a lot of effort! Or maybe not effort, more like time. I spend a lot of time drawing the comics. Luckily I enjoy it. The whole scope of Concession takes even more time though. I spend most my day managing the chat room, or watching the forum, or working on the website (recently, at least). I'd say I sacrifice my social life for it, but I didn't have much of one to start with.

Not including your fursona, which character do you think you're most like?
I relate most to Joel and Roland. Joel started as a representation of me, as what I wanted to be and say. He still represents that - he, as a character, is partially inspired by a few friends of mine, powerful and outgoing people, who I wish I was more like.
Roland is an artist, so I relate to him too. Simple.

How long have you been drawing?
All my life, but I haven't been drawing seriously until like five years ago, maybe. You call can blame NeoPets for getting me back into drawing.
It took a while to get as good as I am now, even if I'm still not that great at drawing. For all that wish to get into art, I must say that the biggest thing you need is dedication and diligence. It takes time to get good, and that applies for most things in life, I imagine.

What's your favorite strip that you've done? Least favorite?
My favorite joke has to be "Zapruder", and I'm also pretty fond of "Body Heat II", a nice comic with some quick, witty dialogue. Artistically speaking, it'd have to be either "Precipitation", a watercolor and flash experiment that went completely right, or "The Morning After", one of the most detailed strips I've done. It's hard to say which strip I like least, because there are a lot of comics I just am not proud of. There are a lot of bad, ugly old strips that I don't like looking at any more.

What's your method? How does a comic get drawn from start to finish?
Concession is now totally digital. After making some rough sketches on paper, I break out my Wacom Tablet and open up Photoshop 7.0.
First comes the blue lines, very loose and light sketches, just to get positioning and pose down. Then comes purple, with which I draw body shape and forum, and add in little details. Once in a while I need a blue layer for further refinement, but usually I go ahead and do the black line layer.
Then comes the color! Wooo! A lot of character colors, like Matt's fur and Angie's skin, are saved as swatches so I can use the same color every time. So I make a layer of flat colors, and then make a new one with shading, which is black, semi-transparent, sometimes given a slight blur.
Then comes the backgrounds. God damn do I hate making backgrounds. That's why I cheat and sometimes just use a cheap gradient. Backgrounds are arduous and boring. Someday I'll get rich and pay someone to draw them for me -_-
Once I draw all the panels and arrange them onto a single image, I bring it into Flash! This is where I make the speech bubbles and insert the text. I then export it as an image and bring it back into Photoshop for final compression. Then I'm done! Woo!

Will you put me in a comic?
Uh, no. In order to avoid fan favoritism, or the drama that is inevitably involved, I don't put friends or fans into comics. I've seen it get ugly, and I don't want to deal with that.

Do you plan on continuing Concession for a long time?
As long as I can! But it won't last forever. I'm not Tim Buckley; I understand that comics can't last forever and keep their charm. Concession has a defined ending. I'm not going to drag it out.
But that won't be for years and years from now. So don't even think about it.

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