Neighbor
Meet Oliver Moxley.
I love the name Oliver. And I’d been kicking around the new tenant’s name for a bit… and the day I was writing this toon, I was pretty close to picking Oliver for sure… in my email box that morning were two email’s from Pinterest… telling me that an Oliver so and so repinned something and so did a la-la Moxley. That sealed it for me. Oliver Moxley.
I have never been, nor will ever be, that smooth, alas. 😀
Doubt Ryan will find this fellow all that smooth. 🙂
It’s amazing, deciding on names for your story. It used to really be a bother. Then I coldly decided to use one source and have ever since. Unless a name came up that was too much like another in the story, I used it. Names I didn’t really like at first eventually became so much the character that I couldn’t think of a better name.
My source? The 1997-1998 Philadelphia white pages. I use the double flip method; once for the first name and twice for the last name.
Coming up with names is always interesting. I used to grab a couple of textbooks and pick first and last names from among the authors.
Baby name books are handy.
Hey Brig? Had a thought about the ‘Top Webcomics’ link (which is currently in the 400s. C’mon people, click! :D) Maybe if you switch the words for the image (a dynamic image showing your current ranking) people would click it more to make the number go down? 🙂
>img src=”http://topwebcomics.com/rankimages/rankimage.aspx?ImageTemplate=dynamiclink1&SiteID=10080″< is the code (if it shows up this time).
Er, with the < & > switched, of course. 🙂
Mr. McDuff… Yes… he IS smooth…
Pash… Ryan can be smooth, but THIS SMOOTH… dunno. I guess we shall see.
Pete… Yah, sometimes I have this “haunting” where things just show up. “Haunting” isn’t really the right word (but it is a Halloween word)… it’s more like little gifts.
There is nothing wrong with fishing though. In fact, I just donated a painting to my local art museum for a show they call “Miniatures”… ARtists donate a work of art less than 9×7 and then tickets are sold and you put the ticket in the box of the painting you want a chance at winning. Then a ticket is drawn from each box… and this is the winner of that painting. OH… my point… the name of the little bugger I painted… I went to a website that generates names for said little buggers… and this helped me. (I will post a picture after the show opens).
Chug…. that’s a good way to choose names… I will have to remember that.
Mary… Yes… I like looking in the back of my fancy dancy dictionary that has a list of names and where they came from and what they mean. I did this for this comic strip many moons ago.
McDuff… thank you… I will work on this… I am a bit on the “techno-dope” side of things… but lemmie work on it. Thank you for your suggestion.
Stop being so NOSEY, Oliver!
Woah. That was smoother than smooth. Let’s see if he is only a beau-parleur…
No worries. 🙂 Hosting a site like this is complicated!
People always feel bad about not knowing all the little computer things. I liken it to cars, personally. Most people know how to drive, fill the tank and change a flat if they need to. Some learn to change their own oil or replace a filter or two. Some can pull apart an engine and rebuild it. And some people can create a car from scratch! Don’t feel bad about not knowing stuff, but do keep learning things if they’re useful to you. 🙂
I’ve been having to think up names for the characters in some stories I’m writing too. I can’t use the phone book, because they’re set in a fantasy tenth century France, so I need Medieval Frankish names. I end up plundering names from the history books I read for background (and plots, there were amazingly horrible things done in Medieval times). As alternatives, I use saints’ names. One good thing is, I don’t need surnames, since everybody goes by what we call the first name. There would be family names, but I don’t need to show those very often.
McDuff… it is an ongoing learning process. When I was a kid, I was afraid to touch a computer for fear that I would do something wrong and it would be broken as a result. I’ve come a long way.
M. Lonie… have you looked at the Catholic Encyclopedia online? It’s a good resource… my family has a line of Catholic-ness… tracing back to Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal. So, I have the French-Canadian Catholic thing in my family… I think that’s sorta cool.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11562a.htm
Do you have a name for this Frankish Medieval novel?