good idea, but... i need plots.
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Comic strip/book creation is an art, and so is plot creation. Everyone has their own unique style of plots. For example, you have terribly drawn lines comics, joan cornella comics, and the infamous C&H comics. You, I would say a suitable style would be a very bland style, where very little plot is used to convey a rather powerful comedy.
I used to love making comics. In third grade, I started producing comic books and strips on a small scale for my friends (I almost started mass producing them using a giant copying machine and a binding machine to sell to other kids in the school, which I still regret). For my favorite, a comic book series, I adopted the classic superhero plot, and called it Dotman, and the style of design was similar to Captain Underpants (oh, nastalgia). I took punctuation symbols and made them into heroes or villains. There were the hyphen henchmen, controlled by the doctor exclamation , if I remember correctly, and several more. Each had their own complementary personality consistent with their symbol. I.e. Doctor Exclamation was a sort of mad scientist, and the question mark villain was like "troll" villain, kinda like the riddler. Eventually, Dotman found a portal to another dimension, and met Ballboy, a three dimensional sphere who had rocket boots, and became his new sidekick. It added pazazz to the plot. I even developed a diagram/set of instructions for properly drawing the characters in correct proportions and line placements.
Anyway, as you can see, I know you probably aren't going to make a comic book series, but the possibilities are endless when it comes to character, plot, and style development, and the principals are basically the same for a comic strip. It's an excellent outlet for creativity.