A junior/senior high school in Idaho has banned The Walking Dead, and removed all copies of the graphic novel series from their library, despite the convened committee’s recommendation to retain the graphic novels. This school district’s ban extends to asking students to…
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Parents! Raise a Reader This Summer!
Every parent worries about their children sliding in the summer, forgetting the valuable lessons they learned in school the previous year. But no one has the time or energy to spend their summer creating lessons and doing homework with their…
Support CBLDF With Kill or be Killed, Fatale & More Hand-Signed by Brubaker & Phillips!
This week CBLDF supporters have the chance to grab some incredible graphic novels signed by award-winning creative team Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips as a reward for your donations! We’re offering copies of Kill or be Killed Volume One TP, Fatale Volume One TP, The Fade…
Victory for ACLU and Chokehold in AZ
The Arizona Department of Corrections decided to reverse its previous ban on Paul Butler’s autobiography, Chokehold: Policing Black Men after the ACLU threatened to sue. ACLU announced the decision on Twitter, and Butler also tweeted about the decision, calling it…
Using Graphic Novels in Education: Drama
Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including…
Committee Recommends Against Restoring Books in Florida Middle Schools
Back in February, CBLDF reported on a political group in Florida demanding the removal of 14 books from Marion County School District. Reports have just come in that the committee has finished reading and discussing the works officially challenged, and…
AARGH!: Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia
It started, as too many things do, with a children’s book that some people found offensive and ended with a piece of legislation called Clause 28 that made it illegal to “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the…
CBLDF Elects David Steinberger To Board of Directors
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to welcome David Steinberger, Co-founder and CEO of comiXology, an Amazon Company, to its Board of Directors, where he will serve alongside other current officers: President Christina Merkler; Vice President Chris Powell; Treasurer…
ONE WEEK LEFT! Pay What You Want for Kodansha Manga and Support Free Speech!
Just one week left to score $1223 worth of manga and support the fight for free expression! Humble Bundle and Kodansha Comics have your summer reading sorted with this amazing Manga 2 Anime Bundle supporting CBLDF! Pay what you want and get amazing titles…
Maine Library Successfully Defends Their Displays Again
Rumford Public Library in Maine successfully defended itself and its displays again this year, after a local politician declared the librarians and the public displays were a way to politicize the library on the “town’s dime.” “I thought we had…