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40 funny comic ideas when you want to make one today

A working list of funny comic prompts: office life, pets, family chaos, self-roasts and absurd premises, each one sentence and ready to go.

Self-roasts

  • My villain origin story: they took my labeled lunch.
  • Me versus the self-checkout, three rounds, no winners.
  • A documentary about my browser tabs.
  • My gym era, sponsored by the snooze button.
  • The five stages of assembling flat-pack furniture.

Pets and small tyrants

  • The cat's daily inspection of the household, findings attached.
  • My dog's double life as neighborhood security.
  • The parrot repeats the one thing we agreed to forget.
  • A toddler's negotiation tactics, studied by experts.
  • The goldfish sees everything and judges silently.

Office and group chat

  • The meeting that could have been an email: a docudrama.
  • Reply-all: anatomy of a catastrophe.
  • The office fridge, a lawless frontier.
  • The group chat goes quiet after someone suggests camping.
  • IT hero saves the day, again, with the same button.

Absurd premises

  • My houseplants hold a performance review about me.
  • The wifi router demands tribute at 9pm sharp.
  • A knight whose quest is returning a parcel.
  • The moon posts passive-aggressive stories about the sun.
  • My alarm clock writes its memoirs.

Funny comics land best at 6 pages: setup fast, escalate twice, end on the reaction shot.

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