This, to me, was a huge problem, as one of the most important parts of a comic for me is the title and cover as these things are sometimes what dictates whether someone will bother reading a book or not. Because of this, Katy and I spent hours trying to pull something together.
First of all, we had to consider the main themes of our comic. For this, we found:-
- Art
- Cats
- Time/History
I found that there were two kinds of titles that were currently popular with younger audiences, these were:-
- One word, usually a verb. (eg. Tangled, Frozen, Brave - very popular with kids movies. Catchy and fun.)
- Overly long and comically detailed titles. (very popular online in meme culture. Funny and stupid. Very memorable. Gets people invested as they already know half the story.)
From here, we searched the internet for different words to include (some of the sites used are referenced in the 'Useful Links' post). We also thought it might be cool to have a short title, with a longer, drawn out subtitle. Here are a few ideas this research lead to...
GORD AND THE CAT THAT BROKE THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM
GORD MAKES AN OBLIVIOUS FRIEND
TWO CATS EXPLORE THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM
TWO CATS VS THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
DRAW PAWS!
SPLAT CATS!
A SPLATTER THROUGH TIME
ARTED.
(subtitle)
PURRFECTLY PAINTED
(subtitle)
MY ART WILL GO ON
(subtitle)
TIL DEATH DO US ART
(subtitle)
CAT’S ALL, FOLKS
(subtitle)
SPEED PAINTING
(subtitle)
We decided it would definitely like to use a shorter title, with a longer subtitle, and we agreed one of the longer titles would look good as subtitles and specifically chose the "TWO CATS VS THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION" line for this bit.
We narrowed down the short titles to three:-
- ARTED.
- MY ART WILL GO ON
- SPEED PAINTING
We had a discussion from here, testing out how each of the whole titles would sound out-loud. We also considered the sense of humour our audience have, and how to amuse them! From here, we settled on our new title...
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