In early October the Court of Appeals in the UK issued an injunction, halting the publication of an unnamed memoir on the grounds that if distributed its “allegedly harmful” content could be “likely to exert a catastrophic effect on [the…
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A Full-Frontal Assault on Censorship: Zap Comix and the Underground Movement
Neil Gaiman, Robie Harris, Judy Blume, and More Hit the Red Carpet for NCAC
Jaycee Dugard’s Memoir Removed from Middle School Classroom Libraries
Neil Gaiman to Be Honored as NCAC 2014 Free Speech Defender
Today in New York City, the National Collation Against Censorship, along with thirty-nine other notable individuals, organizations, and initiatives, will honor award-winning author and comics creator Neil Gaiman the title of 2014 Free Speech Defender. For their 40th anniversary, at…
Dave Gibbons, First Comics Laureate and Champion for Comics in Education
With the appointment of comics creator Dave Gibbons of Watchmen fame as the U.K.’s first Comics Laureate, it seems the rest of the world has finally started to figure out what we already knew: that comics can have a positive…
Copyright as Censorship? A Look at the Early History of Copyright
THE HORROR: True Stories of Comics Code Censorship Recounted at NYCC
The Comics Code — the “guidelines” that resulted from United States Senate hearings that took place during the height of the Golden Age of comics and that are credited with the first major downfall of the comic book industry —…
She Changed Comics: Citations and References
The following sources were cited or informed the profiles in CBLDF Presents: She Changed Comics. Nell Brinkley (p. 1) Robbins, Trina. Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013. 30-34. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 2013. Robbins, Trina. The Brinkley Girls: The Best of…