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So What To Name The New Mark Millar All-Women Anthology? (UPDATED With Millar Commentary)

Published Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:49:56 -0500

Last updated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:06:33 -0500

So Mark Millar wants to bring back the girls' comic to Britain. An anthology of comic stories, with a supernatural twist it seems, for a new audience. A new version of Misty, apparently, and presumably with friends and stars contributing.

Say, doesn't Mark Millar know JK Rowling? Anyway, one can guess that Denise Mina and Muriel Gray may be approached, but for the British pop culture audience will we see the likes of Lily Allen, Karen Gillen, Ronnie Ancona, Gemma Arterton, Jessica Stevenson, Ruth Jones, Dawn French, Tamsin Grieg, Helen Mirren or Fern Britton approached? But more importantly than that – what will it be called? Traditionally girls comics were named after a Christian name – Judy, Bunty, Jackie, that kind of thing? All a bit tame today though.

How about something pop culture? AMY? MYLEEN? LiLY? DiANA? JADE? PARiS? Possibly still too genteel – and not genitalia.

You know, the book Swallows And Amazons starred a young girl called TiTTY. Adrian Brown suggests FANNY as well. Might they suit? And EvilNinjaPhil suggests LeTITia.

There's always BiNT. At least it rhymes. Or how about, as Dan Hill suggests, BiNTY?

FLiCK would make them a pair in the newstand, as would CLiT.

TW@ might be a little too clever.

Chris Metcalfe suggests 80085 in calculator font. While Slim suggests PENI5.

Andrew Wheeler reminds us of sugaRAPE while Mike Hod goes with CLiNTORIS

Alton Williams considers MINX and TOTT

Si Spurrier suggests BEAN FLiCKER

And Lee Grace suggest possibly the most likely, CHiCK with Stephen Downey a less likely suggesting CHiC FLiCK.

Any other suggestions?

UPDATE: Mark Millar has posted;

I did an interview with a paper last week and since they missed the Clint launch they went with a 30 second piece of the interview where I said if this was a hit I'd think about a girls comic down the line. I have a friend I'm spoken to informally about editing, but I'm at least a year away from even thinking seriously about this as between directing a film, producing five, my Marvel gigs, my Millarworld projects and editing Clint itself for at least the first year (as well as other stuff you don't know about) my plate is full.

I got about 20 submissions as soon as this story went live, but a bit naught of the journo to make this the story as was not what I was being interviewed about. Please don't send me any submissions and I already have a title, thank you, for when this happens. And it's not crude. Clint is aimed at a very particular market, my possible girls comic further down the line being aimed at the Twilight demographic, all features, etc, appropriate to this.

It's not totally the journalist's fault of course, Mark did drop this as a future-plan previously. And shame, I rather liked Binty…

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