How did you name your comic??

Rolenthegreat · Post by **Rolenthegreat** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:12 pm

Titles.
The bane of my existence.
I can not for the life of me ever come up with a good title, I mean EV-AR!!!! My stories are always called ‘Space Story’ or ‘Private Eye’ or other similar lame things. How do you come up with a good title? Better yet how can I come up with a good title? My comic is currently title-less, I wrote down like three pages of ideas, and changed the name like 20 some odd times. And I still got squat. But, this isn’t just about comics it’s about every thing, heck I’m considering just calling my term paper ‘Computer Graphics Technology 101' because I am seriously that bad at this stuff. So I want people to tell me how they came up with the title for their comic. Or maybe a similar funny anticdote how they came up with a name for their short story, poems, children...
I need help!

Derenge · Post by **Derenge** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm

My comic used to fit it's name, it doesn't make much sense these days though. I just thought it would be a nice and apathetic name for a comic at the time. Now I just don't change it for the sake of keeping things as simple as possable. Plus it has saved me from coming up with a real name. I'd be hard pressed to come up with anything good.

You could take that big list you have and throw a dart at it. Random chance couldn't hurt at this point... unless you hit youself with the dart that is.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:41 pm

I never have trouble with names but, you know, they just come to me. I can't tell you how it works.

My comic, well that was based on and named after a series of text gags I used to put in my sig called "The Conversations Within Elsydeon". They weren't really named, as such. It's just a description of what's happening.

"You have no idea how difficult it is to look menacing in pink." - Alis, Conversations Within Elsydeon

See? Just sets the context for the quote.

- Joel Fagin

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:57 pm

Well, my comics are grouped together under the name "The Gorge", and each story will (once I start drawing them, heh...) just be called "The+noun". Example this: The Beast is my first story.

It's silly, but it helps me limit my choices for comic names or I'd take forever to choose.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:06 pm

Well, I wanted to make an RPG webcomic, so I was about to write "Roll of the Die" in my sketchbook so it'd be RPG related, when I decided I wanted to be a little different, so I Made it "Role of the Die" instead.

Um, that's about it, sadly. No big mindblowing story. I did have a little scare when I started searching around the 'net to see if anyone else had taken the title and found the comic "Role: Die!".

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:24 pm

I feel your pain Rolen, I too suck when it comes to titles, I went through about 15 crappy ones before I settled on my current, semi-crappy one.

Carlin · Post by **Carlin** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 pm

Ahh the name game, I am a hack when it comes to names. Most (all) of the names for my charaters were decided upon in a caffiene induced coma. The name for my comic simply popped into my head one morning (afternoon) when I just woke up. And it stuck in my head. I plan on having something related to the name Shellshocked in my comic someday. (maybe I can make some sort of running gag *ponders this*)

Anyway... for some reason all my inspiration comes to me when I am just waking up or in some sort of haze and not thinking clearly. I write all my scripts and some up with ideas for the comic in this manner. This works for me but I would not recommend this.

It's just when I come up with funny ideas without trying too hard. (I am a slacker) Try naming you comic when you are feeling creative and adventurous. If you just sit down and try to think of stuff it sometimes wont work. This is fine if you are doing intelectuall things like school work or writing html, but not art. Dont force it.

Or of course you could just go with what your comic is about. Something that fits the theme of the comic. Or use the name of something important that appears in the comic. Anything will work. If you still think the name sucks or is just plain stupid, if it fits use it. Look at mine for example, Shellshocked popped into my head for no reason. And it stuck. So I went with it. It's not exactly stellar but it works and I like it anyway.... (And if you want to know why it stuck then you will just have to keep reading, it will be revealed later. suckas)

Or you could take titles you have now and fancy them up a bit. "Space Story" becomes "Tales From the Void" or something. (yes I know it's a bit of a stretch, I got creative, so sue me) And "Private Eye" could become "Silent Detective". (again with the overly creative {crappy} names.... I should write my next comic while I'm at it) You get the idea. As cheesy as it may be....

[edit] Whoo! My longest post ever![/edit]
[double edit] The name for your current comic is nice. Got a ring to it. [/edit again]

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:07 am

Mine's just a spin-off from the primary school play I wrote and the school have just finished producing. We started the comic based on a few of those characters and the same basic theme.

As for naming that, well, it took place (and still takes place) in a primary school next to the cemetery...and the boys are the only ones who can see the spirit (and there will be more later), so School Spirit basically named itself. Also, it reflected the spirit of a school community sort of thing as well, so I probably fluked it on several levels.

Some of us get lucky...others get frustrated...

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:15 am

This question finally prompted me to dig out my old sketchbooks, and see what it was that inspired me to choose my strip's name. Sadly, I am forced to report that it appears that my beloved magnum opus got its start as a couple of lines of bad poetry, and a crude sketch of a literally E-shaped house.

High on a bluff overlooking Some Sea
Stands the quite-allegorical Mansion of E.

And I misspelled "allegorical".

Ah well... I like the name just fine, and only regret not remembering/knowing when I finally went public with the strip that "E" can also stand for the drug ecstasy, which was definitely not my intention. If I were to start over, I'd probably call it "The Mansion of Ee". (Of course, it would then turn out that "Ee" is slang used by child pornographers or something...)

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:17 am

[geoduck] wrote:If I were to start over, I'd probably call it "The Mansion of Ee".

That's a lost city on the Discworld. Given you're both fantasy humour...

- Joel Fagin

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:55 am

I named my comic off of an idea that Japanese people like the word "Super" (such as the Boredoms naming their album Super AE) and I thought my comic needs to be "Super_______" So tried to think of something, and I randomly thought "Super Fight" would be funny. Then I said, just to be one step nuttier, I thought I'd start calling it "Super Fight Fight" I think that's the main reason I started drawing my comic in June but didn't publish until July because I couldn't think of a good name.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:58 am

I'm egocentrical and named my personal studio after me (and then it was spelled wrong on the buisness licence, but instead of changing it, I just live with confusing people with Burgundy and Burgandy) and When I made my first comic, It was about life in my studio, so it naturally becamed named after my studio... with an "INC." added to the end of it.

And Shades of Burgundy is once again purely because I'm stuck on Burgundy Mode.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:04 am

I'm crap at titles as well, anyway I think that for lack of a good idea, a safe choice to stick for a title that gives people a very general idea of the contents of the comic.

Zhan_Dvega · Post by **Zhan_Dvega** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:06 am

Har

Back when I created my comic I was really big on learning the Japanese language and twisting it around to make it my bitch. Anyway, I absolutely <3'd Japanese puns, so I just _had_ to make the title of mine a pun. (In fact, I think the title came before the actually story... Lame) So, 'ai' being the stupid crappy word for 'love' that every lameass otaku knows, and 'Yai' being the first three letters in the main male characters name (Yaichiro; so named because it's the only name in all of Japanese that begins with Yai, hur hur), and 'Ai-Yai-Yai' being the universal sound of annoyance, frustration, etc. (You know, the talking electric razor on the Power Rangers said it all the time) it all just came together...

TheLoserHero · Post by **TheLoserHero** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:17 am

For a creative writing course during Sophomore year, I read two novels with two different perspectives. The events during each story affected the other in such well planned and intricate ways, I was simply stunned. I wanted to do that for a webcomic.

I'm also a bit of a fatalist (I think I am, anyway...) and I wanted to see how characters would react if they found that they were destined to do something, good or bad. Would they fulfill it? Would they run from it?

Hence, "Twice Destined".

p.s. There's another reason it's named that... but that'd spoil something.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:31 am

My comic is about Jamie and Nick. I wish I was better at the name bit.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:33 am

I wanted to do a science related comic.

Thinking... a good word for thinking is Cognition.

What kind of cognition are we talking about..? Well, REASONED cognition.

A google search of Reasoned Cognition brought back almost nothing (some research on porcupines, a congressional speech, and some whacko religious nutjob). So I thought, hey, I'm like a whacko congressman with a pet porcupine! I have a title!

Reasoned Cognition (n): The mental process of knowing, including such aspects as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgement, as brought on by an explanation given in a logical and persuasive manner.

William G · Post by **William G** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:34 am

My comic is called "It's About Girls"

You can figure the rest out yourself.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:38 am

I cheated.

I used the name of my main character as the name of my comic. The one I've actually started drawing.

My username is actually also the title of a comic I'm (ever so slowly) working on. The way I came up with "Pretty Dragoon" is as a reaction to Sailor Moon. It's Sailor this and Sailor that, why does the Navy get all the fun? The Army deserves something too! And I had served in the Dragoons, so my take on "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon" became "Pretty Dragoon". But that project is still in the preliminary planning stages. I need to prove myself I can do a webcomic first. Say, 50 pages at least, without majorly messing up my schedule.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:09 am

My comic started as a school newspaper comic, and I couldn't think of an appropriate name before the deadline. I didn't like it at first because it sounded too pessimistic, but I like it now. "The End of Things" is just as optimistic as it is pessimistic.