Action Philosophers



Action Philosophers is published by Evil Twin Comics. Current price per issue is $2.95.

Last Issue

 * Action Philosophers #8: 28 Feb 2007: "Senseless Violence Spectacular"

Current Issue

 * Action Philosophers #9: 06 Sep 2007: "The Lightning Round"

Next Issue

 * none

Status
Series of self-contained books each featuring different philosophers in amazing cartoon action. Published irregularly. Final issue will be #9.

Main Characters
The comics creators themselves often show up in stories, either as background characters or to help illustrate ideas of the philosophies covered - example: Isaac Newton strangles artist Ryan Dunlavey for drawing the cliche of an apple hitting him on the head.

Action Philosophers #9
"The Lightning Round"

Action Philosophers #8
"Senseless Violence Spectacular" - Features Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and “You’re A Good Man John Stuart Mill”.

Action Philosophers #7
"It's All Greek to You!" - Features The Pre-Socrates, Aristotle, and Epictetus the Stoic.

Action Philosophers #6
"The People's Choice" - Features philosophers chosen in an online poll: St. Thomas Aquinas, Soren Keirkegaard, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Action Philosophers #5
"Hate the French!" - Features Ren&eacute; Descartes, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida

Action Philosophers #4
"World Domination Handbook" - Features Karl Marx, Machiavelli and The Kabbalah

Action Philosophers #3
"Self-Help for Stupid Ugly Losers" - Features Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell

Action Philosophers #2
"All-Sex Special" - Features Thomas Jefferson, Ayn Rand, and Saint Augustine.

Action Philosophers #1
Features Action Philosopher #17: Plato, Action Philosopher #23: Bodhidharma, and Action Philosopher #9: Friedrich Nietzche. Each section tells the life story and major contributions to the field of philosophy of each of the title philosophers.

Trade Paperbacks

 * Action Philosophers Giant-Sized Thing, vol. 1: - Collects #1-3. - WorldCat - ISBN 0977832902


 * Action Philosophers Giant-Sized Thing, vol. 2: - Collects #4-6. - WorldCat - ISBN 0977832910


 * Action Philosophers Giant-Sized Thing, vol. 3: - Collects #7-9. - WorldCat - ISBN 0977832929


 * The More Than Complete Action Philosophers - Collects #1-9, plus 4 new stories. - WorldCat - ISBN 0977832937

Hardcovers

 * Action Philosophers: The Tenth Anniversary Überedition! - Collects #1-9, plus five additional stories. -

Creative Team
Fred Van Lente - writer Ryan Dunlavey - artist

News & Features

 * 10 Dec 2008 - Fred Van Lente Day Chat Transcript
 * 16 Feb 2006 - Exclusive Preview: Action Philosophers #8, "Senseless Violence Spectacular"

Links

 * Action Philosophers on the Evil Twin Website - includes a sample story and excerpts.