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Existential Comics

American webcomic (2013-present) by Corey Mohler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Existential Comics is a webcomic about philosophy created by Corey Mohler, a software engineer in Portland, Oregon.[1] Mohler created the comic in December 2013[2] in an attempt to help popularize philosophy through comedy.[3] The comic tends to depict philosophers of different backgrounds and often has them interacting and arguing with each other.[4] It also gives textual descriptions of the jokes and associated philosophy to help educate readers.[5]

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In May 2018 Mohler once called Elon Musk "the villain from Atlas Shrugged". Musk responded during SpaceX's launch of a Falcon 9 rocket.[6][7] Mohler later published a comic about the incident.[8]

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As the name implies, existentialists are often featured in the comic.[9] The four here, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre, have all been featured multiple times.[10][11][12][13]

As of April 2023, the comic has covered over 200 philosophers,[14] examining a wide variety of thought from Pre-Socratic philosophy to contemporary philosophy.[4] Mohler has described both Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as his favorite philosophers.[5] Alongside existentialism, Mohler has also written extensively about Stoicism[15] and communism.

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