Author: Betsy Gomez

CBLDF Defends A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl After Challenge

The CBLDF-sponsored Kids’ Right to Read Project sent a letter to the Currituck County High School school board after a parent in the district demanded the removal of A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, a critically-acclaimed novel…

Back to School with Comics: CBLDF Presents Manga

Manga is worldwide phenomenon: One of the most widely read types of literature in its home country of Japan, it has crossed the world to become a very popular category here in the United States. With burgeoning collections in libraries…

Back to School with Comics: Raising a Reader!

Our monthly column Using Graphic Novels in Education provides some great tips for using graphic novels in the classroom, but how can you use comics to get your kids reading from a young age? CBLDF’s publication for parents and teachers…

Back to School with Comics: Using Graphic Novels in Education

School season has begun again! As kids return to classrooms, it’s a great time to encourage literacy by using graphic novels. Using Graphic Novels in Education is an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the…

Barefoot Gen Ban Lifted

In a victory for free speech, the Matsue City school board overturned an order that banned renown anti-war manga Barefoot Gen from school libraries. Keiji Nakazawa’s celebrated series was removed from shelves after a complainant — one who does not…

Supreme Court Justices Played Video Games During Brown v. EMA

At 53, Elena Kagan is the youngest member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan recently spoke in Providence, Rhode Island, and Michelle R. Smith with Talking Points Memo wrote about Kagan’s comments on how the Court uses technology. Kagan admitted…

TFAW and DCBS Team Up to Support First Amendment Rights as CBLDF Corporate Members

Discount Comic Book Service and Things From Another World are proud to announce that they are joining the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as corporate members–the first comic book retailers to do so since the CBLDF’s inception in 1986. In addition to this…

Youth Voices Important in Fight for Free Speech

Recent attempts to ban Marjane Satrapi’s Perseoplis and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower have been met with vocal opposition. Central to these protests are students themselves, and their vociferous protests and savvy with social media helped prevent…

Author Responds to Attempts to Ban The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Recently, two attempts have been made to remove Stephen Chbosky’s acclaimed The Perks of Being a Wallflower from schools. This is nothing new for the novel, which has made ALA’s most challenged books list several times. The National Coalition Against…