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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.