Panels CBLDF: Raising a Reader Friday, July 19 • 12:00pm – 1:00pm • Room 30CDE 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…
Author: Betsy Gomez
Canadian “Anti-comics” Law Used to Prosecute Website Owner
A 1949 law passed to prevent the corrupting influence of comic books is being used in Edmonton, Canada, to prosecute the owner of a website that posted a video showing the alleged murder and dismemberment of Chinese exchange student Jun…
SDCC 2013: Thursday Events with CBLDF
Panels CBLDF: Banned Comics! Thursday, July 18 • 12:00pm – 1:00pm • Room 30CDE Every year comics are banned in libraries all over the United States; learn how you can fight back! In recent years, comics that have been targeted…
SDCC 2013: Everything CBLDF!
It’s here! Comic-Con International 2013 launches with tonight’s Preview Night, and CBLDF is joining the fun with exclusives galore at Booth #1920! We also have the best party of the show, the CBLDF Comic-Con Welcome Party and a spectacular assortment…
Infographic Reveals the Reasons Comics Are Challenged
Designer Tim Leong — who will be joining CBLDF throughout Comic-Con for signings of his new book Super Graphic — has assembled an amazing new infographic that reveals the reasons why comic books and graphic novels are challenged and banned…
CBLDF Releases RAISING A READER, a Resource for Parents and Educators
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to release “Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!,” a new resource for parents and educators about the learning benefits of comics! This new…
Japanese Researcher Declares Manga and Anime Good for Children
How many times did your parents tell you to stop reading comic books or watching cartoons so you can read a “real book”? One researcher in Japan is telling parents to stop denying manga and anime to their children because…
SDCC 2013: The CBLDF Panels!
Comic-Con International: San Diego is just around the corner, and CBLDF is ready to lay down some education with panels about comics censorship, banned comics, using comics to raise a reader, and the attacks on manga! Don’t forget our ever-popular live art jam! Details follow…
Blogger Labels Acclaimed YA Novel “Child Pornography”
In June, Laurel Nokomis School in Sarasota County, Florida, convened a committee of teachers, education professionals, and more to determine the fate of an award-winning novel that was being used in an 8th grade gifted language arts classroom. The board…
Librarian Bans Book to Teach Lesson About Censorship
Librarian Scott R. DiMarco is proud to admit that he banned a book from his library at Mansfield University in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. But he isn’t an unapologetic censor — he did it to teach his community a lesson about “the…