Samurai Drifter said:

I'm sorry, but if you can't think of your own jokes you don't have much of a future as a cartoonist.

Also, you don't really want to mimic Garfield's humor.

My advice:

Step 1: Read a ton of Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, Perry Bible Fellowship, and any other comics (or webcomics) you might enjoy. Study what it is about them that you like.
Step 2:  Decide on a format. Do you want one panel? Three or four? Variable amounts? Do you want it to be a page-by-page comic book setup? That will affect what kind of jokes you use a lot.
Step 3: ??
Step 4: PROFIT

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Wow you sound like a "Cartoonist for Beginners" book, I stated that it was only for fun. and I don't want to mimic anything. Lots of cartoon strips get their jokes form writers. I have a cast of characters so it obviously isn't gonna be a "Gag-A-Day" format (well, Ziggy is like that but...)

Mort Walker got a lot of his jokes from Dik Brown, who also inked for him. and Johnny Hart also contributed a lot of jokes/gags to Mort Walker. It's the oldest set up. Writer and artist. I'm not trying to have a "future" either it's only for fun...

I appreciate the advice, though it is a little obvious. And yeah, I read a shit ton of comics already.

I'm just not good at writing jokes, and I wondered if anyone here was

Big_Whoop said:

i dunno, numbers may look a little out of place...

but if you are going for an old school look then it may just work.

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