A minor work in Campbell's oeuvre. The first half deals with his own interactions with money, including creating a corporation so that he can write and draw a Batman comic (and he sees this as every bit as absurd as it sounds) and loaning his father and law $70,000. Neither of these things ends well, which reinforces Campbell's basic sense that one should keep things simple, not borrow (or lend) money, and otherwise be a good, miserly Scot. Frequent quotations from headlines about the financial

This was a bit of an oddity. I think I was expecting a treatise on money rather similar to Scott McCloud's seminal work "Understanding Comics". Instead we get an autobiographical work that just happens to talk about money. The book is divided into two parts. The first relates to the author's travails with his father-in-law and what happens to the money Campbell lent to him. The second is the story of the stone money of Yap, in which Campbell travelled out to this remote island to explore. Of the...

Pity the poor autobiographical cartoonist to whom nothing interesting happens for, like the lawyer who represents herself, he has a fool for a client. Witness the talented cartoonist Eddie Campbell begin to illustrate his tax returns for us as he bellyaches about money. Spoiler alert: he doesn't like having to worry about it, and oh yeah, there's some tribe in the South Pacific that uses giant stone disks for money. Snooze.

A strange mixed bag. Half the book is about Eddie's financial growth and woes (including a horrifying and funny story about his father-in-law). It's similar to much of his recent autobiographical work. The other half is about the stone money of Yap, Eddie's trip to Yap, and some economist's theories and idea inspired by the giant stone disks. I like both halves, but I don't see them working together as a whole.

After listening to Eddie Campbell's talk last weekend I decided it would be nice to read more of his own work. He came across as amusing and intelligent and I definitely felt like that reading this. It was a very interesting book. It looked at the influence of money in his own life, as well as how it is viewed in a more global perspective. The personal first half of the story told how money was responsible for all sorts of problems with relationships. The pressure and inconvenience of it. As wel...

Not Mr Campbell's best work, it is a nonetheless interesting essay on money and how we act/react to it as well as a (cursory) exploration of the Island of Yap and their stone "currency". In his inimitable style, Campbell talks about how he reacts to money and the idea of owing/being owed money, especially in respect to his relationship to his father-in-law. As always, lots of little asides (the Polish tourists, for example) are sometimes more telling than they would appear at first.Interesting,

This book runs like a diary, or at best a daily blog. The illustrations are nice, if a bit strange - some of it is just color over photographs.I didn't read the whole thing, so maybe it gets better in the second half?

Eddie Campbell’s new book is divided into two parts. The first is mostly autobiographical and deals with Campbell’s relationship with money – “The Lovely Horrible Stuff” – and how it dictates a lot of his life from relationships with his kids, wife, and father-in-law (whose own wheelings and dealings are discussed at length), to his professional life in comics and TV work. Campbell makes the distinction that though he is careful with money, he is not interested in it nor its highly complex struc...

Easily my least favorite of Campbell's books - it meanders around its theories on money, goes off on travelogue and history tangents, and never really bothers to come into focus.It is very nicely drawn, however, so it has that going for it.

I found this book at the library and decided to read it on the spot rather than take it home. You see, I have a problem where my currently-reading and to-read stacks blend and I never finish anything anymore. I figured I'd prevent that (and strain my back less) by reading it at once. The narrative was mostly what I'd expected: a responsible man explaining his very well-meaning views on money. Most of me hoped it'd be completely unexpected, perhaps even an absurdist view about finances. Not so. H...

Campbell is an idiosyncratic comic book maker. Despite his many important collaborations when given his head he prefers to muse via anecdotes taken from his life experience. So there's the Alec stories and Little Italy and so forth....This one is in that mode and I for one loved it. A self published work (not unusual for Campbell) maybe it lacks a few pixels in the reproduction of the panels, but for my money, it's the thought that counts.I loved the way the stories were illustrated. I really a...

Eddie Campbell is always a delight. He has a wonderful way of merging autobiography with flights of whimsy like nobody else. This volume, as the cover would lead one to expect, deals with money. Campbell relates several recent anecdotes including a tale of his trip to Yap Island, home of the fabled stone money. Great stuff! Always nice to see a new Eddie Campbell book ...

This was a very weird and peculiar book. While I did learn something very interesting from the comic book, the art style is a bit jarring and so is the lettering. Wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re an avid reader of comic books or interested in an esoteric corner of the world of money.

A new Eddie Campbell book is always something to look forward to and this one is no exception. This one is a return to autobiography and as the title would suggest the topic is money. It's split into two parts, one dealing with Eddies issues with money, the second part details his trip to the island of Yap to explore their strange currency. I enjoyed both parts pretty much equally. Eddie is a fantastic story teller and knows how to keep an audience interested. He succeeds completely here, but I

Campbell's artwork gets better with every book, but his writing also gets a bit more disjointed and hard to follow. If you haven't been reading Campbell for years, you may not have a clue what's going on many parts of this book. If you have been reading him, like me, you'll understand it better and enjoy it more, because the new story lacks the context to associate it with his previous works. But even then he dances around some of his subjects instead of telling a straight-forward story. The scr...