#GivingTuesday just posted video for their day-long, first-ever Google+ Hangout-a-thon, which means you can now view (or relive) CBLDF’s #GivingTuesday Mashable / Google+ Hangout with Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL) and Gene Luen Yang (American…
CBLDF Presents Manga
CBLDF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices is in stores today! An authoritative yet accessible handbook designed to help librarians, educators, and parents navigate the vast and popular field of manga, CBLDF Presents Manga provides what…
Absolutely True Diary Pulled From Classrooms at West Virginia Middle School
Two weeks after the last challenge to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was positively resolved, the book has been removed from eighth grade classrooms at a middle school…
Support CBLDF on #GivingTuesday!
The holiday season is upon us, and with it comes a chance to reflect on the year that’s passed and to plan for the year ahead. This week, CBLDF is doing both. We’re also asking for your support on Giving…
A Greater Force for Good: CBLDF Annual Report 2013
Join Jeff Smith & Gene Luen Yang to Support CBLDF on #GivingTuesday!
CBLDF is excited to be participating in the first ever #GivingTuesday and Mashable Google+ Hangout-a-thon on Tuesday, December 3. This 12-hour live Hangout on Air will take place from 9am – 9pm ET, with CBLDF going live at 5:30 pm…
Unique Personalized and Signed Gifts for Your Favorite Comics Fan!
It’s the season of giving, and what better way to both find a unique gift and support free expression than by shopping for your favorite comics fan (or yourself!) with CBLDF?! We have gifts ranging from signed books to original…
Signed Grant Morrison Portrait Available on eBay!
Artist Steve Cleff donates his talents in support of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund by contributing a one-of-a-kind Grant Morrison portrait. This painting is watercolor on 18″ x 24″ canvas and has been…
Giving Thanks for the Freedom to Read
It’s Thanksgiving, and CBLDF is taking a moment to reflect on a busy year of defending comic books from censorship. We have a lot to be thankful for — key victories for the freedom to read, great…
Join Jeff Smith & Gene Luen Yang For A Live Mashable Google+ Hangout on Air!
On Giving Tuesday, December 3, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the PEN American Center and present a live Mashable/Google+ Hangout On Air with acclaimed graphic novelists Jeff Smith and Gene Luen Yang! CBLDF Board Member Jeff Smith is the…
Art Spiegelman Gets In the Spirit of Giving!
Legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman is supporting CBLDF this holiday season by personalizing his graphic novels Maus and the brand new retrospective Co-Mix for CBLDF donors as part of our Spirit of Giving holiday fundraiser! Spiegelman joins Alan Moore and comics greats…
Cartoonist Keeps Drawing Despite Fundamentalist Threats
The last time we featured Egyptian political cartoonist Doaa Eladl here, she was facing a Muslim Brotherhood-backed lawsuit that alleged one of her cartoons was blasphemous. In the tumultuous months since then, the lawsuit evaporated along with Mohamed Morsi’s presidency…
CBLDF Co-Signs Letter Defending The House of Spirits
This week, a review committee in North Carolina will decide the fate of Isabel Allende’s The House of Spirits after parents in the district appealed an earlier decision that upheld the book’s use in classrooms. CBLDF…
CBLDF Joins Amicus Brief Opposed to Arizona Law that Led to Ban of Mexican American Studies Books
The students and teachers of Tucson’s now defunct Mexican American Studies program are fighting back by bringing suit against Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal. In an effort to protect educators and students’ rights to access comic books by…
Now in the Rewards Zone: Warren Ellis Supports CBLDF with Signed Books!
Superstar writer Warren Ellis was kind enough to sign a batch of his best books for the CBLDF on a recent visit to New York, and they’re now available in the Rewards Zone! In exchange for a donation, you can…