The Lovely Horrible Stuff
By Eddie Campbell
Award-winning graphic novelist Eddie Campbell presents a delightful autobiographical voyage into the financial wilderness. With his trademark blend of research, anecdote, autobiography, and fantasy, Campbell explores how money underwrites human relationships — from the imaginary wealth of Ponzi schemes and television pilots, to the stone currency of the Micronesian island of Yap.
Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell (written by Alan Moore), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus (aka Deadface), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day. His graphic novel The Fate of the Artist, which playfully investigates Campbell’s own sudden disappearance, was published in May 2006 by First Second Books.
