Existential Comics

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]

Existential Comics
Author(s)	Corey Mohler
Website	existentialcomics.com
Current status/schedule	Active
Launch date	December 2013
Genre(s)	Philosophy

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]

Philosophers

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.

See also

• The Partially Examined Life