I made most of my friends through making comics, and also my fiance, and I've made a good number of friends on Tapas, so yeah, there are plenty of people who want to be friends.
I think the fact that you're not currently updating a comic is part of the issue? It makes it hard to have common ground, because creators can bond most easily over that weekly grind of getting their pages done, and it's way easier to talk about your comic if you can show each other what you create and discuss your different approaches and aims, while having that common ground of hard work and the courage needed to put that imperfect creation out into the world and deal with people telling you exactly what they think of your labour of love with varying amounts of tact.
When a person wants to talk comic creation but hasn't actually got anything out, it can be a bit of a red flag. People like that often either ask for a lot of advice without providing much in return creating an unequal feeling relationship (like you're not really friends so much as you're an unpaid mentor), or they insist on giving advice, but their advice, coming from somebody without experience of having to maintain an update schedule for months or years or building an audience, is often impractical and based on assumptions rather than things they have put into practice themselves successfully while under pressure to maintain weekly updates at a consistent level of quality that effectively attracts and retains readers.
It's so easy to sit on the sidelines telling comic people they should put more effort into their pages and not cut corners, and to never chase market appeal, while always being the person whose comic will come out "eventually" and they're confident it'll be the best comic ever and an effortless hit, but never releasing it because they built it up too much and they're scared to actually face the music, that a lot of comic creators will instinctively avoid anyone who seems like they might be that sort of person.
If you actually start putting your work out there, you'll have an easier time making friends with people who can also relate to the ridiculous amount of hard work that does into making, updating and promoting a comic every week and trying to make it look as good as possible while knowing it can never really look as perfect as you'd like it to. Passionate comickers respect hard work, motivation, bouncing back from mistakes, self-learning and dedication. If you demonstrate you have those qualities, you'll easily make friends with comics people. 
