Pointless Prizeless Challenge #12: Render A (Stupid) Story Title

3dcheapskate

New post for 2023 titles

Books:

• The Far Queue     ...and, of course, its sequel - Far Queue II !  
• The Case Of The Suppository Repository
• Quindlethrump The Troll   ...or perhaps Buttercup The Troll
• Toshi Baba And The Faulty Keyboard
• Moon Men From Mars
• The Evitable Mise Of xyz     ...or something like that - you know, the opposite of The (In)evitable (De)mise Of xyz
• Muffy The Umpire Slayer
• Achilles' Willy   ...Achilles' Willies ?
• The Sky Swimmers Of Archimedes 7
• Uncle Carbuncle
• The Time Flies   ...I think tht's already listed ?
• The Bagoshite  ...something to do with nassty hobbittssess
• The Prehensile Testicles Of Gerund Guatemala   ...inspired in part (guess which part) by Villa Incognito, a real book - look it up
• Olduvai George
• Dig-Dag-Dug !   ...seen on a T-shirt somewhere ?
• Muffin's Meringues
• The Umbrella Smeller     ...or Tyrant ?
• A Beginners Guide To Putting Things On Top Of Other Things   ... the Monty Python classic
• The Wholly Bullshit
• Naked Tango
• The Toothpaste Jugglers
• The Papal Drone    ...sequel to The Papal Ass ?

Characters:

• Vincent Clinic
• Amanda Studio
• Vanilla Woodshaving     <= this one's probably my favourite name for a heroine
• Felicity Strumpet     ...Fellatia Whipplestrumpet?
• Dr Suppository    ...inspired by Dr Fallopian
• Salacious Curdle   ....Crumble? Grumble ?
• Quarrel/Querrule     ...the former was a James Bond character I think ?
• Zebulon F Scrottlethwarbler/Wildebeeste
• Fluenza Wanabe   ..could be Effluenza
• Piety Perverström/Perversion
• Reverend Sigismund Olaf McWorzel, vicar of the parish of Outsmouth and the church of St Beagle Of The Euphemism
• Sydney Teller/Teacher
• Trundleworth
• Cromlech Stiltwalker
• Generic Eric The Nondescript
• Charlotte Bullwhisperer
• Krint     ...sounds like a butler
• Miss Goodride     ...James Bond Girl (sounds very familiar)
• Topaz The Quaint     ...a fairly meek magician
• Deeplord The  Unfathomable     
• Petroleus The Unflammable

Memorable lines:

• From Adobe Mick - The famous opening line - "Call me Ishmael. Or Jemima. Whatever you want. It matters not one mote, for my name is Solomon Brunswick."

Saphirewild

Looks like it is going to be a fun one this year Pete!!!

3dcheapskate

Well 2023 didn't end up being much fun. Let's hope 2024 is an improvement. So here's a brand new post for the new year, a couple of weeks late but who's counting, for 2024 names and titles.

And since this is in the Art Studio forum I'd better include some art a stupid picture as the last five posts, excepting Diomede's which includied a gallery link, haven't exhibited even a whiff of an image.

So here's an old, rather poorly conceived and even poorerly implemented movie poster...

You can see that I decided to leave all the stops firmly in, can't you ?

STICK NO BILLS
(aka reserved space for the poster)

And on to the real reason for this post.

Book titles for 2024:

• ...I have a few written on scraps of paper somewhere which I'll add here when I find them
• Dogsick And Spongebath Go Camping
• Anoraknaphobia
• The Stellar Aardvark
• The Suppository Of Doom
• The Sousaphone Of Trepidation
• The Truffle Divers
• King Leer

Character names for 2024:

Let's start 2024 with the ones from that poster

• Valentine Voronoi
• Jock Thruster
• Barnstormley Crumphole
• Verity Suffix   ...the eighth name.
• Albert Prunewarbler   ...I think we had his brother Alembic back in January 2021 - the tenth name. And... (see line above)
• English Nick   ...a bit of a wideboy and tea-leaf
• American Nick  ...aka Nick the inaccurate slasher
• Nick the prune
• Joey the cow
• Desiree Shagpile
• Lewisson Crampet
• Jericho Sandwich
• Flamenca Spatula
• Spinach McGuffin
• Dr Edmund Homunculus   ...aka Big ed, of course !
• Hamish McDevious

And a few good words to roll around your palate and savour:

• Gorn
• seemly
• vacuum
• prodding
• leap
• bound
• vole
• recidivist   ...slightly dubious?
• caribou

        omitted (if you don't know, don't ask)

• ocelot
• wasp
• yowling

 

(Feel free to nick* any of the titles in this thread for your own films, plays, novels, performance art pieces, etc, and to similarly nick any of the names)

 

 

*That's English nick**, not American nick*** - obviously a couple more names to add
**English Nick's a tea leaf
***American Nick's a slasher - not a very good one though

Tynkere

Nice one.  Need to do more in B&W.  Also need better fonts.  Where did you get the ones used in your movie poster?

Anyway, by coincidence, been having technical/hardware issues, so I did a satire aimed at a certain tech company.  

Drivers Needed by Miles Milano

What the critics are saying:

“Miles writes an action packed tour-de-farce.”  -- New York Times

“Miles does it again.  Thrill a minute page turner...”  -- Chicago Tribune

“Guns. Mystery. Women in Nylons!  Motion picture potential...”   -- Los Angeles Times

“A good cure for insomnia...”  -- Kirkus Reviews

3dcheapskate

Hurrah, a book cover !

:happy dance:

All my non-standard fonts are free ones usually from, I think, either 1001fonts.com  or dafont.com, and one of those font-finder sites tells me that what I used in the poster is Sofachrome Regular by Typodermic.

Here's a shortlist of some free fonts I know I've got, most likely from 1001fonts:

(Edit: links added to list below. All except Foucault available at 1001fonts)

Sci-fi: Android Insomnia, Lazenby Computer, Liquid, Neurochrome, Space Age, 
Classic: Celtic Hand, Cloister Black, JSL Blackletter, Foucault, Reynold, 
Unusual: Elfic Caslin, Lovecrafts Diary, Wizard Speak,
Miscellaneous: Kirjainkone, Psychedelia HM, Vtks Desgaste, Creepster. Liquidism

 

  Minya Nouvelle - 20 Mar 2024 - the one I used for the "Kachikety-Boom...Gajugata-jugata-jugata" on the back cover of "A Graphic Novel Without Pictures"

 Ombudsman Alternate - 17 Apr 2024 - a stencil font often comes in handy - a few years ago I was useing Stencil Cargo Army, but something odd's happening when I try to open the TTF/OTF freshly downloaded from 1001fonts/DaFont... (In fact I think the font I was using a few years ago was just called 'Stencil')

 SofaChrome - 18 Apr 2024  as mentioned in the first line of this post

 

There's a number of good free fonts for book covers mentioned in the second post of Philebus "Pulped Fiction" tutorial here Pulped Fiction - Daz 3D Forums - plus of course it's an excellent guide for creating your own classic pulp covers.

Another one I used for poker chips was a font called, I think, Broadway (or Broadway Regular) - but it's not on my laptop any more and I can't find it...

Tynkere

Thanks for the tip.  Registered & just finished trying a couple their fonts.  Seem to work fine on aging versions of Photoshop and Illustrator. 

Mildly amusing (to me at least) was 1001 font's User-Name robot.  I am "Tyke" -- apparently auto-corrected from Tynkere.  Who cares though.   Call me what they want if free content.  ;) 

Best wishes & have a good 2024

 

3dcheapskate

Not exactly a book cover, but... well... who's checking...

SofaCitizen

3dcheapskate said:

Not exactly a book cover, but... well... who's checking...

Sorry, I had the thread starred and meant to comtribute earlier in the year but forgot :(  I'll try an come up with a book or magazine cover to contribute soon.

Nice work on this one tho - makes me want to play Dungeon Keeper again now!

3dcheapskate

Dungeon Keeper !

Ah, yes... I wasted many, many hours playing that... many, many years ago...

 

Anyway, just to do something useful with this post - I found some printouts of all the extra free fonts that I added to GIMP, of which I've attached photos to this post.
The first two sheets are the Khmer and Klingon fonts that I had. None of these were from the standard places I mentioned before so I'll try and find links to them if anybody's interested.
The others are what I classified as symbol, miscellaneous, historic, scifi and handwriting - I think these were all from the standard free font sources mentioned previously and many/most I've already listed. Once again I'll try to find download links for any ones not already listed.