Jerome Kerviel: Comic book hero

The legend of accused Societe Generale rogue trader Jerome Kerviel keeps getting bigger.  He's turned into quite the folk hero in France where 77% of French people responding to an Optionway poll consider him to be a "victim".  Already the subject of several books, now Kerviel is further immortalized in his own comic book: ``Le Journal de Jerome Kerviel,'' or "The Diary of Jerome Kerviel".  According to le Bloomberg:

After inspiring at least five books, a ``Save Kerviel'' club and fan t-shirts, Thomas Editions, a children's book publisher, yesterday released ``Le Journal de Jerome Kerviel,'' a fictional, illustrated ``bande dessinee'' memoir of the trader's rise and fall at France's second-largest bank.

 The comic book is further evidence of how France is still enthralled by the banking scandal that hit the 144-year-old lender earlier this year. Paris-based Societe Generale lost 4.9 billion euros ($7.1 billion) unwinding unauthorized trading positions Kerviel had taken, which were concealed with fake hedges.
 
The number of calls and early orders through vendors like Amazon.com Inc. prompted Thomas to delay the book's first outing by two weeks to double the printing to 10,000 books, he said. Thomas said he is considering further expanding the print order to 20,000 to 30,000 copies, based on international demand.

Kerviel Inspires Comic Book on Societe Generale Trading Loss - Bloomberg