Action Philosophers



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

Last Issue

 * Action Philosophers #6: 23 Aug 2006: "The People's Choice"

Current Issue

 * Action Philosophers #7: 08 Nov 2006: "It's All Greek to You"

Next Issue

 * none scheduled

Status
Ongoing series of self-contained books each featuring different philosophers in amazing cartoon action. Published irregularly.

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 #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.

Collections

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


 * Action Philosophers Giant-Sized Thing, vol. 2: - Collects #4-6. - (forthcoming, December 2006)

Creative Team
Fred Van Lente - writer Ryan Dunlavey - artist

Order Codes
These are the order codes and prices as provided by Diamond Distribution. Your local comic shop should be able to order these for you.


 * JUL05 2839	ACTION PHILOSOPHERS #1 2ND PRINTING	$2.95
 * APR05 2879	ACTION PHILOSOPHERS #2 ALL SEX SPECIAL	$2.95
 * JUL05 2838	ACTION PHILOSOPHERS #3 SELF HELP FOR UGLY LOSERS	$2.95
 * OCT05 2976	ACTION PHILOSOPHERS #4 WORLD DOMINATION HANDBOOK	$2.95

Future Publication Dates
Dates subject to change at the whims of the publisher or distributor. Please see the Diamond Shipping Lists for current information.


 * Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing Volume 2 TP: Dec 2006

Links

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