In light of the recently announced Will Eisner 2026 nominations for comic book industry awards, I thought I would provide a quick reading list for newcomers to this site. Several of the nominees in key categories have been profiled here, and serve as great starting points for considering comics and …
Comic Philosophy’s 1st Anniversary
Today marks the one year anniversary of my launching ComicPhilosophy.com online. And what a year! Over 200,000 words written about comics and ethics (whew). I thought this would be a good time to take stock of where the site is – and where it is going. Has anything changed in …
Comic Philosophy is Fully AI Free
I’m proud to certify Comic Philosophy as completely free of any generative AI content! As I explained on my About Site page, all written content on this site has always been exclusively produced by a human being – me. And all the images used in my comics ethics posts are …
Praise for Comic Philosophy
I typically do a terrible job of promoting myself online. But I have received some heart-warming feedback from comics creators, so I thought I would quote some of their public comments here (with links to the published sources). With my gratitude and appreciation for all you do in creating such …
Why be Moral?
Despite being at the heart of ethics, the question as to why one should behave morally is a surprisingly difficult one to answer. So difficult in fact that I have plenty of ethics texts that don’t even try to address it. Instead, they are happy to explain the types (and …
Comics, Ethics and AI
Having hit a double milestone recently for this site (six months and over 100,000 human-written words of content about the ethics of comic books!), I thought it was time for something different: examining the promise and peril of AI through my experience of researching and writing about comic book ethics. …
Official launch of Comic Philosophy
Welcome to my official launch post for comicphilosophy.com! I have been working for many months on preparing the look and feel of the site, and writing the background pages and initial character ethics posts. It has finally progressed to a stage where I’m willing to share it with the world, …
Glossary
Initially, I set this page up as a Glossary of Terms page, to provide an up-to-date list of all the key philosophical concepts described on my site (with direct links to the sections of the individual pages and posts that describe them in more detail). I have since expanded it …