Shout Out: ‘Personal Finance Comics’

By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | June 4, 2010 | +

In this series, the superheroes are personal finance bloggers who battle the evil forces of lottery tickets and credit card debt, and who sometimes, in Inspector Gadget-like fashion, unleash extendo-scissors from their arms to chop up credit cards before they can do more harm.

Amusingly concocted by the folks at CreditCardFinder.com, with scenes like this:

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This is fantastic! It certainly livens up what can sometimes be a ‘boring’ topic to write about. But it more than revitalises the topic, it actually makes you want to follow the series! Make sure you check all the parts of all the comics for a good laugh.

The ‘Bear Grylls’ comic (Man vs Debt) made me laugh as I am a huge fan of his show!

What a way to impart good financial hints and tips!

Are there more to come?
jeremycabral

Wow! Brad, thank you so much for featuring our Personal Finance comics.

They’ve been a helluva lot of fun for us – now up to our 5th comic.

Who knows in the Personal Finance Comic future, you could be featured?! We’ll see what we can come up with!

Keep up the great work with your blog Brad

Cheers!

Jeremy Cabral
archininja

This is awesome. It’s good to see a totally different setting to many “traditional” comics.

Linda
http://www.moneyfunk.net Money Funk

You should read the comic…and check out Money Funk (she makes a damn hot looking comic character). ;-)

I was extremely happy to take part in it. Thank you Brad for awesome comic mention.

And who would of thought comics and personal finance could go together. But Credit Card Finder did an awesome job (thank you, Francis).
http://fredschebesta1.wordpress.com fredschebesta1

Wow! Thank you so much for featuring the comic. We have a load more to come. Brad did an amazing job with the script, MoneyFunk looked hot as always, J.Money did his Thang, big ups to Adam “Bear” Baker for his NZ Adventure and Thanks to Brian for helping out! A big thanks to all the personal finance bloggers for their support and participation in the comics.

We will have some geat comics to come and should anyone want to work with us or be featured just send us an email or contact form!
jeremycabral

Thanks for all the positive feedback and comments guys! You rock :)

Definitely agree with Fred there – it’s the collaborative effort that really makes these comics a success!

Thanks for your continued support!
ahsouthwick

love the comic, brings a bit of light into something that would otherwise being a pretty boring piece of work, that and it puts a new spin on trying to fight debt!
jimmyoz

Wow.. I looked in to this. This comic actually features various personal finance bloggers as characters in the comic – ie. a comic based on real people and real life events!

I’m impressed!
http://www.legallawyers.com.au dcol9186

These are awesome comics. They really portray what you are thinking about when you are trying to solve a personal finance problem.
thewritersmanifesto

Love these comics. I believe more bloggers and webmasters should use comics to lighten their messages. It’s a great way to engage the younger generation in view of the popularity of Manga.
pkoole

Awesome! This is so “cool”!
Brad Tuttle

That’d be sweet. I want some cool powers though — like the ability to see through advertisements and make them totally honest and upfront, or maybe just the ability to turn marketing and ad messages off entirely. That’d be especially useful when my kids are watching TV.
bradchaffee

Thanks so much for featuring the comics on this site. That is so awesome. I am really glad that everyone likes them so much. Personally I think finance can get kind of dry and repetitive, so I think shaking things up a bit by adding an entertaining element was a great idea. Francis and Fred are awesome for starting this up and I was honored to have the opportunity to be a part of it this time.

Thanks again for sharing this with your readers. :)
theromulans

Nice one guys. I wish I had my adventures as a programmer detailed in comic form each day like this :p