Good Philosophical Comic Strips (Friday Fun)
Let’s get a list of good philosophical comic strips going. Post one you like. If it is online, great; list a brief description along with the web address, like so:
Dinosaur Comics on philosophical progress – http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=787.
If you just have a hard copy, take a photo of it and post it somewhere online. Or, if you can’t do that, send the photo to dailynouseditor[at]gmail[dot]com and I should be able to put it up and send you a link to it for you to post.
The webcomic ‘xkcd’ often has rather good comics intersecting with philosophy. Here are a just a few:
“Trapped” – http://xkcd.com/876/
“Revolutionary” – https://xkcd.com/675/
“Philosophy” – http://xkcd.com/220/
A reply comic is here: http://chaospet.com/164-it-goes-both-ways/
Fantastic!
Chaospet is full of great philosophical comics.
One of my favorites is the three-part series on the Trolley Problem:
http://chaospet.com/30-the-trolley-case/
http://chaospet.com/31-trolley-problem-again/
http://chaospet.com/32-double-effect-saves-the-day/
….which gives us one of my very favorite lines in the history of webcomics, “Oh no, a consequentialist!”
Favorite of mine:
http://chaospet.com/85-the-game-of-science/
What good is Superman? – http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
And we shouldn’t forget Dresden Codak’s two “Dungeons and Discourse” comics.
http://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/
SMBC has several amazing ones. Here is, honestly, only a brief sampling (remember to click on the big red button in order to get an extra panel):
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2340#comic
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1889#comic
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2298#comic
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1879#comic
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2673
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2386
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2871
Okay, I am randomly going to stop there. There are a ton more.
SMBC is really excellent. And I never knew the big red button gave you a bonus panel – now I have to go through a bunch of comics there again!
Tom the Dancing Bug – “Ethical Issue Raised By Man-Cow Organ Slave” – http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/1998/12/06/#.U0hLnPldV8E
Piled higher and Deeper — http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1
and some of my favourites from the ever-brilliant xkcd:
honor societies — http://xkcd.com/703/
e to the i pi — http://xkcd.com/179/
logic boat — http://xkcd.com/1134/
newton and leibniz — http://xkcd.com/626/
relativity — http://www.xkcd.com/1233/
proof — https://xkcd.com/1153/
seven seems like a good number. i’ll stop here.