Coming up with the name of a comic strip isn\u2019t necessarily an easy process.\u00a0 You want your title to be something different than what\u2019s already out there, and you also want it to be memorable.\u00a0 But most importantly, you want to make sure that you pick a name that will allow your strip to grow and change.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve made the mistake of limiting the growth of my comic strip in the past with Crunchy<\/em>.\u00a0 Crunchy<\/em> originally followed the adventures of a pet turtle of the same name.\u00a0 As the strip went on, however, Crunchy the Turtle was featured less and less.\u00a0 Soon the strip started to focus more on the neighborhood kids and Crunchy the Turtle went from the strip\u2019s star character to a recurring character.\u00a0 After I ended Crunch<\/em>y I made a mental note that the title of my future comic strip series would leave them more open for evolution.<\/p>\n Shortly after Crunch<\/em>y ended I came up with the concept for Suburban Fairy Tale<\/em>s. \u00a0I had originally thought that Fairy Tale High School<\/em> would be a good name, but then I thought\u2026 what if I don\u2019t want them to be in high school anymore?\u00a0 What if in ten years I wanted my characters to go to college or even beyond?\u00a0 As a comic strip writer, you never know where your mind will be in five, ten, or twenty years from now. Suburban Fairy Tales<\/em> sums up the concept that my strip is about Fairy tales characters living in a suburban community.\u00a0 There\u2019s plenty of room for growth and change in that title.<\/p>\n Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts<\/em> is a great example of what a comic strip title should be.\u00a0 I know he hated the name and Lil\u2019 Folks<\/em> would have definitely been better, but the point I\u2019m trying to make is that the name Peanuts<\/em> didn\u2019t handcuff the strip to its original premise and characters.\u00a0 If Schulz had titled his comic strip The Adventures of Charlie Brown, Shermy, and Patty<\/em> he would have been forced to use those three characters for the next 50 years.\u00a0 But Shermy and Patty eventually disappeared from the strip and the Peanuts<\/em> of the 1950s is a completely different strip from Peanut<\/em>s of the 1990s.\u00a0 Peanuts was allowed to grow and evolve because the name didn\u2019t hold it back.<\/p>\n So when coming up with the name of a comic strip, keeping your title open is advice you may want to consider.\u00a0 Because what you\u2019re writing about when you\u2019re 15 isn\u2019t necessarily the same thing you want to be writing about when you\u2019re 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"