Columns

§ The CBLDF raised $82,000 in October -- a bit short of their goal but still pretty good.

Will Tintin be a hit? Can Central Jersey host a comics show? What is the secret comic strip Chuck Jones tried to hide the existence of? All this in today's Kibbles!

Links of note from the last couple of days. Try it, you'll like it!

Return with us now to the wonderful world of comics, a joyful, laughing place of great creativity.

The return of a beloved Beat tradition!

Marko Djurdjevic -- threat or menace?

Wossy wites; Morrison's secret Ware-loving past; can LA ever host a good comics show?

News and notes from here and there.

§ Brian Wood gives an exit interview for DC Comics -- he's leaving his exclusive to concentrate on other ventures, such as THE MASSIVE, as new project for Dark Horse with artist Kristian Donaldson. Along the way he shows that an entire career path is dwindling away:

From Korea to Philadelphia, with stops in the 80s.

§ Is Achewood coming back from the long hiatus of the soul? Gary Tyrell looks at the evidence.

§ A fellow whose girlfriend was interning at Disney two years ago and knew about the Marvel acquisition has been charged with insider trading after he took advantage of his knowledge to buy stocks just before the acquisition was announced -- this kind of thing is illegal unless you use the popular "time travel" method of going back in time to remind yourself to invest in Widget stock or whatever. Toby Scammell, 26, may have just snooped into his GF's Blackberry -- or maybe he just knew. Either way he made a 3000% return on his $5,465 investment.