# The Greatest Wall Street Comics of All Time

> Source: <https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/06/the-greatest-wall-street-comic-of-all-time/>
> Published: 2026-06-17 11:36:00+00:00

One of my favorite parts about writing over the years is the regular feedback I get from readers.

People send me questions, ideas, charts, movie recommendations, books, old magazines and the occasional grammar/spell check.1

A reader recently shared with me that he’s been collecting Wall Street comics for a few decades. He wanted to send me the entire collection, clipped straight from newspapers and financial publications over the years.

I’m a sucker for a good finance comic so I was happy to sift through the whole pile and pick out some of my favorites to share.

The 1990s comics had two main focal points — tech stocks and Alan Greenspan.

I know there are a lot of comparisons right now between AI and the dot-com bubble the 1990s feel like they were in a different stratosphere:

When talking about my book a number of people asked me [if we could ever see another Great Depression-like calamity](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/11/why-we-cant-have-another-1929/) in the stock market, which was down more than 80%.

You don’t have to go back that far to see this level of pain in tech stocks. The aftermath of the dot-com bubble was brutal.

The Nasdaq Composite was down nearly 80%. The Nasdaq 100 crashed more than 82%. That’s a Great Depression-like crash in tech stocks not all that long ago.

It was painful:

When the Nasdaq dropped almost 40% in 2000, the Down was down just 6%. In 2001, the Nasdaq dropped more than 20% while the Dow fell 7%.

Investors did have a place to hide out in the more boring dividend-paying blue chips:

Alan Greenspan made his now famous [irrational exuberance speech](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/08/is-this-1996-or-1999/) in 1996. The dot-com bubble was just getting warmed up at that point.

Greenspan was a larger-than-life figure in the markets back then.

Here’s a good one on the bubble times:

And another one:

Greenspan was a financial celebrity of sorts back then. Investors hung on his every word:

They even covered Greenspan on the B.C. comic strip:

This is one of my all-time favorites about the negativity bias in the financial media:

This one is similar:

That one came out in 2008 but could easily be used today.

There are not many bull market cartoons. There are a lot of good bear market comics.

This one is funny because it’s true!

Here’s another Nasdaq one:

Also true.

This is a good soft landing crossover with a bear market:

There were also a series of comics about how hard it is to predict the markets:

This one had to come from the likes of Barron’s:

Markets can twist your brain into a pretzel at times.

This one sounds like something I would say:

I’m glad this one was in the collection because it’s the greatest Wall Street comic of all-time:

It’s perfect.

As the kids like to say — no notes.

Further Reading:

[“The market is rolling simply because it’s rolling”](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/07/the-market-is-rolling-simply-because-its-rolling/)

1I surprised how much of this stuff still gets by the AI grammar police.