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LAST CHANCE to Order Geoff Johns Greenest Night Tickets!

May 23, 2013
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LAST CHANCE to Order Geoff Johns Greenest Night Tickets!

Tomorrow night, comics fans and superstars will gather to celebrate the work of Geoff Johns. You still have a chance to join the celebration — and support CBLDF — but you better act fast! Ticket sales end at 5:00 p.m. EST Friday! Greenest Night: A Celebration of Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern benefits Comic Book Legal…

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Bangladeshi Cartoonist Recounts Time in Prison

May 20, 2013
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Bangladeshi Cartoonist Recounts Time in Prison

In 2007, Arifur Rahman published a cartoon featuring a character called Mohammad Cat. The cartoon was published during the Islamic holy day of Ramadan, and its publication led to protests across Bangladesh. Rahman was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in prison for “harming religious sentiments.” Olivia Stransky with Sampsonia Way recently interviewed Rahman about…

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CBLDF Heads to Big Wow Comicfest This Weekend!

May 17, 2013
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CBLDF Heads to Big Wow Comicfest This Weekend!

This weekend, comics fans will gather in San Jose, California, for Big Wow Comicsfest, an ever-growing celebration of comics creators. CBLDF will be on hand in booth #234 with exclusive signed premiums, t-shirts, and more! Big Wow takes place May 18-19 at the San Jose Convention Center in downtown San Jose. With an impressive guest…

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Online Retailer Won’t Send Some Manga to Canada Because of Customs Seizures

May 17, 2013
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Online Retailer Won’t Send Some Manga to Canada Because of Customs Seizures

Canadian manga-lovers website Kuriousity posted a story this week about an online retailer that no longer sells Bond of Dreams, Bonds of Love, a yaoi (boy’s love) manga from SuBLime Manga, to Canadian residents. Lissa Patillo with Kuriousity writes that RightStuf.com posted the following warning on it’s website with regard to Bond of Dreams: Note:…

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Northville’s Response to the Anne Frank Challenge

May 14, 2013
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Yesterday, we reported that the review committee at Northville Public Schools had elected to keep Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl in middle school classrooms, an important victory for the right to read. What follows is the letter Robert D.G. Behnke, Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services, sent to community members regarding the decision:…

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Nebraska Library Won’t Remove Batman: The Killing Joke

May 14, 2013
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Nebraska Library Won’t Remove Batman: The Killing Joke

In a victory for free speech, the review committee for the Columbus, Nebraska, Public Library and denied a challenge from a patron who demanded the removal of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke from library shelves. Batman: The Killing Joke depicts Joker’s violent torture of Jim Gordon and his daughter Barbara. It…

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Victory in Defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl

May 13, 2013
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Victory in Defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl

Two weeks ago, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund joined the Kids Right to Read Project and several other free speech organizations in signing a letter in defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. In a victory for free speech, the Michigan school district to which the letter was addressed has elected to…

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Cartoonists Resist Censorship Abroad

May 10, 2013
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Cartoonists Resist Censorship Abroad

This week, David Reed with the Missouri NPR affiliate KBIA 91.3 examined editorial cartoons and freedom of expression abroad during his Global Journalist radio show. Among the topics of discussion were Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, two editorial cartoonists who have been persecuted in their home countries. Ferzat, from Syria, was beaten and his hands…

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CBLDF Executive Director Speaking at This Weekend’s TCAF Librarian & Educator Day

May 9, 2013
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CBLDF Executive Director Speaking at This Weekend’s TCAF Librarian & Educator Day

CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein will be participating in the second annual Librarian & Educator Day at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend! On Friday, May 10, you can join Brownstein and a panel of library all stars for Comics Defense 101, a discussion of the library concerns particular to comics. From the TCAF…

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Disney’s Bloody Attack on The Air Pirates

May 6, 2013
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Disney’s Bloody Attack on The Air Pirates

What follows in an excerpt from The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney’s War Against the Counterculture (Fantagraphics 2003) by investigative journalist Bob Levin. The book describes the so-crazy-it-must-be-true story of Disney’s attack on a group of underground cartoonists who, under the moniker The Air Pirates, set out to take down the Disney empire with satirical…

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