New York Comic-Con starts this Thursday, and CBLDF will be along for the ride, first with our NYCC Welcome Party, and then with our panels — CBLDF will reveal the secret origins of comics censorship and how you can use comics to make kids into lifelong readers!
Let’s take a look at waht CBLDF has in store for NYCC:
CBLDF: The Secret Origins of Comics Censorship!
Friday, October 11, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Location: 1A03
Speakers: Charles Brownstein, Carol Tilley, Charles Kochman
In 1954, comic books were put on trial by the US Government whose Senate investigation prompted the birth of the Comics Code, a censorship body that shackled the medium for decades. New research by scholar Carol Tilley reveals a secret history behind the trials, including insights into the methods of Dr. Fredric Wertham whose findings weren’t merely faulty, but also fabricated! Go behind the scenes of this fateful moment in comics history and learn the untold stories of Fredric Wertham, Estes Kefauver and the kids who tried to fight the tide of anti-comics momentum.
If you want a warm up for this panel, check out this nifty two-part series from designer Michael Dooley on the comics that were targeted by Fredric Wertham in Seduction of the Innocent:
The Comics that Corrupted Our Kids!
Cover Your Eyes: the Graphic Horrors of 1950s Comics
CBLDF: Raising a Reader
Sunday, October 13, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Location: 1A01
Speakers: Charles Brownstein, Colleen AF Venable, Eric Wight, Jennifer Holm, Matt Phelan, Matthew Holm, Meryl Jaffe, Shana Corey
An all-star panel of kids comics creators and educators discuss ways to get children excited about reading, encourage creativity and cultivate a love of literature using great graphic novels and comics.
While you’re at the show, don’t miss your chance to pick up the extremely limited Hack / Slash variant cover of CBLDF Liberty Annual 2013, available only from CBLDF! Limited to 500 copies, this cover will debut during New York Comic-Con, October 10 – 13, at the Javits Center in NYC. CBLDF will be at booth #965 throughout the show.
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