How did you title your comic/novel(s)?

[Leon]

I named my last work from Queen's Brighton Rock lyrics.

[SynCypher]

I named my novel after one of the creatures in-world. (I figured since it was an important one, it would make sense to the story haha)

I named my comic similarly so, I guess there's a pattern with my naming schemes. Lol.

[xanedis]

Let's see... I tend to go for a thematic name or an important object from the story. "The Essence of Villainy" and "Lifeblood" come to mind, here.

[Progg]

I titled mine "Carla's Adventures", Carla not being a character, but a spaceship in which the characters travel (It's always fun to be a little misleading...). I'm not really that happy with the title, but it was the best I could come up with.

[Penni]

I had the hardest time coming up with a name for my novel! In the end, "What Lies Within" is a reference to not only the burden the main character carries but also what's hidden in everyone.

[Testaccount]

I'm one of those writers that like relating something in the story to the title. So for my mer story, I had the main character say this, "When I think of (main male character), I will think of clashing waves, strong, captivating, but deadly if you slip into their waters."

[Vanesalisa]

Hollow Creek it came to me in my sleep also they also have a movie of that title I didn't know about it till my cousin told me about it

[375]

If you've ever seen Over the Garden wall, Miss Langtree sings "A is for the apple he gave to me, but I found a worm in side" in Episode 3. Well, I was singing that in the shower and then I went "M is for the Monster that hides underneath your bed" And I was like, ....sure year lets do that title. And it'll be about a monster XD

[jpnakashima]

Shredded Light came from something a movie school teacher once said in a history class about film noir. He described that archetypal light as ''luz picada'', which is actually something more like ''chopped light'', and I never heard it being described with these words. It kind of stuck. When it came time to translate it to English, ''Shredded'' just sounded cooler and more aggressive.

The Bold Adventures of Maxiboy is pretty usual Silver Age superhero stuff. I did chose Bold because of ''The Brave and the Bold'', which is still one of the coolest series names ever.

Mantra - Ghost Music, well... I can't quite remember. But I'll give my best shot.
''Mantra'' was the name of a proto series I designed with a friend starring this same character. It was about pragmatic chaos magic, in a way, and we decided he would be a singer-songwriter, updating and equating the idea of Mantra with the idea of Song Lyrics. Years go by and we decide to get this same character and build a metafictional fuckfest with him at the center, so we add a ''one shot title''. Now the music of Mantra is a ghost music, because I'm kind of obsessed with the idea of ghosts and it's incorporeal, sad nature. This is one pretentious title, I'll tell you.

[dawgofdawgness]

Mine’s named after the name of the jazz combo my characters are in and what my MC thinks she is

[ReroOnyx]

For the longest time, my series was called "War of the Heavens" as the original idea had intended to be something kind of different. However, the overall idea of the series had changed somewhat and eventually, I felt the original title just didn't have the same expression as I wanted.

I thought people might mistake it for some kind of "battle series" and something taking place in the heavens like gods battling it out. Instead I decided to change it to "Saga of the Wide Winged World" to better grasp the idea of the series without making it seem like something else.

[JenniferBourne]

"Goo Goo and Squick" is named after two of the characters. Partially because I knew the domain name would be available. Some say I should have picked a more "obvious" name, like "The Flock" or "For the Birds" (as the strip features bird characters,) but I figured those had already been done. I wanted something more unique.

[djwaglmuffin]

Well, sir.

When I first started working on my comic/novel, it was centered around angels and their workings but over time I changed it, to focus more on the overall scope of how otherworldly decision affect us in the mortal realms.

One thing led to another and, after close to 12 years of toiling, I finally renamed my novel "Descendant". True story.

My Overwatch fan comic? Second Wave is military terminology and it fits with what I envision some characters in Overwatch to be like. ...and I hope I'll be able to finish this comic amidst all the OTHER things happening. Yeesh.

[nikaalexandra]

Sixty-Four is kind of an artifact title from the first draft of the story, referring to the 64 components in the drug distributed by the cartel

That part doesn’t matter so much in what is now the actual published comic, which is a highly political action-drama, so I like to attribute the title now to the fact that there are 64 spaces on a chess board

[JeffBaker]

Helmuth Chronicles was originally called "Hellmouth" but I thought that was too on the nose. Symco and Hodge is named after the main characters, and Dead Man Walking just seemed to fit.

[rmdooley]

Being a responsible adult I said, "Dad! I need a title for the webcomic."

And he said, "Legio Arcana."

[TheFalseVyper]

I've named my comic different things over the years. When I was younger and finally thought of giving my story a name, I came up with "Wolf Curse", but over time the title felt too cheesy and it no longer fit the story.

Around the time I decided to start drawing my comic, I began listing out some other ideas for a title. Some of them included:

"Wolf Warriors" - Dear God this one sounded even cheesier than the last

"They Call Us Wolves" - I thought this was too lengthy

So I cut the last one down and simplified it to be "Those Called Wolf". Somehow, I thought it fit really well with the story I was wanting to create.

[Moth]

I called mine Raining Knives because it rains a lot in my comic, the name has the right unpleasant sort of tone, and I because spent the longest time not really sure if raining knives was a real idiom for heavy rain that people actually used or something I'd just made up at some point and convinced myself was a common turn of phrase >_> which I guess fits as well!

[cocoasninja]

When I was in like 6th grade, I wrote a bunch of potential band names on my mirror in sharpie and since I can't get them off, I just kinda wrote stories about them

[TimCaloweh]

I don't know if I nearly got hypothermia, but when i was in high school i was waiting for my stepmom to pick up my brother and I in the middle of a rainy day. It ended up pouring like a crisis. We waited for what felt like a couple hours even though i suggested to my brother that we should probably go seek shelter in the gym cause so many other students were still there. He said no and my stepmom ran late. When we were finally picked up, my body began to ache all over. I remember back to when i saw Titanic and Jack warned Rose that when in the water "It feels like a thousand knives hitting you all over." I thought he was exaggerating. But of course even if i took the hottest shower, wore my warmest sweater and wrapped myself in my sheets. my insides still felt like i was being ripped apart. It was awful. And that's why i titled my comic The Rainy Days to remind my readers that something bad is gonna happen when the droplets start falling.