There is one thing that everyone start making comics we hear from people who make them for some time: you give a name to your characters, past and character, since the first stories are stories of characters and credibility and ability to arouse curiosity will have your characters, the greater the possibility of keeping the reader glued to your story.
E 'is a rule that also in the film and everyone who writes books and then tries to decline according to their needs and demands expression.
Personally, in my brief experience, they almost always been led to expect the moment when baptizing my characters and find him a name (and maybe a last name), preferring to use the opening bars of the names of convenience, even very conventional, and thus focus more on what they were and what they did / should do.
For this reason, after I came easier to find a name that I would make them more easily recognize, but without thereby reach the ultimate limit to justify the name on the basis the role of the character.
names that I chose to leave for the stars of Once Were Criminals stemmed from my usual habits and as usual I had given up with solutions very simple and immediately recognizable. So then you change , I thought.
John, Frank , Patrick, Neil , Montez, Maria and Sal ( Vincent arrived much later and in concert with Gianfranco) are easy names, names that have met many times in comics, movies, books and television series and which were so close at hand as to be missed.
do not deny that laziness has had its weight, but mainly because I felt much more important to focus on what wanted to tell and how , rather than on the question of names. When Gianfranco
then began to discuss all issues related to the project, both continued to seem secondary crack head too, at that moment, on the issues that we could easily deal with it later.
If we thought one of the characters, we thought of him by that name and that name was sewn on the possession and any alternatives there seemed cold, distant and unrelated.
A nice paradox, considering the extreme-media dissemination and tracing of names so immediate, but so be it. Even so, every time we got to investigate further with John, Frank and the other their stories, we have carefully refrained from asking the family (all but one, actually).
