While plowing through my own list of todos, I found yours as you are one those on my list to contact with something about comics and patents.
So, you want to patent something! Great, there is much that can be patented, even software.
Although ultimately software will finally find its natural place as a language that instructs machines and will fall out of the patenting circus, this will take some time, so if your patent is going to involve software, you do not have to hurry. Just make it something really clever. But then it it is something really clever, you may not want to patent it. Remember, Coca-Cola did not patent its formula. They were damn smart, whoever those they were that made that decision.
In my uncondition blog you will find the presentation slides from SHIFT and the link to the WIPO comic brochures about patents.