**Spoilers ahead for Season One, Episode Three of the Netflix show The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina that don’t affect the overall watching experience, but give away details from a single episode sub-plot** The hit…
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Education On the Ballot: 2018 Midterms
Unless you’ve just woken up from a fairly long coma, you know that the midterm elections are Tuesday, November 6th. The midterm elections always experience a lower voter turnout than years when the presidency…
Community, Education, Features, Fundraising, Headline, Homepage, Legal, media, News Blog, Uncategorized
Community Rallies Around Iowa Library After Man Burns LGBTQ Books
Last Week, CBLDF wrote about a man in Iowa who took out four LGBTQ children’s books from the Orange City Public Library and proceeded to…
Signed X-Men: Grand Design, Groo, & More Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF supporters can donate to grab graphic novels signed by some outstanding cartoonists, including the brand-new X-Men: Grand Design Second Genesis and X-Men: Grand Design, signed by Ed Piskor; Groo & the Thought Patrol Print, Groo: Friends & Foes HC, Groo: Play of the Gods TP, and Groo: Fray of…
Go Back to the 80s with this Rad Humble Bundle from IDW that Benefits CBLDF!
Head back to the 1980s with this killer comics Humble Bundle from IDW Publishing! Pay what you want to get $278 worth of DRM-free digital comics and support important charities like Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and…
How Comics Were Blamed for the Vampire Panic in 1950s Scotland
The year was 1954. The location: Glasgow, Scotland’s Southern Necropolis, a massive graveyard harboring over 250,000 sets of mortal remains. Over a span of three nights that September hundreds of children under…
Mississippi Jail Censors Everything Except the Bible
The Human Rights Defense Center and Mississippi Center for Justice have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the inmates at Forrest County Jail, stating that all books and periodicals other than the Bible and occasionally other Christian publications, have been…
Iowa Man Burns LGBTQIA Library Books on Facebook Live
Paul Dorr, the leader of an anti-choice, anti-LGBTQIA group called Rescuing the Perishing, posted a video of himself on Facebook Live burning children’s books borrowed from the Orange City Public Library in Iowa. According to the …
Signed Umbrella Academy, Pretty Deadly, & Many More GNs Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is excited to offer our donors a slew of signed graphic novels, including Umbrella Academy TP Volumes One and Two, signed by Gabriel Bá; Daytripper TP and De:Tales HC, signed by Gabriel Bá & Fábio Moon; Walt Whitman’s “To You” Print, illustrated and signed…
A Closer Look at Precedent in Recent City of Thieves Book Ban
By Brian Saucier Regular readers of the CBLDF news blog will recall that the Lee County School District in Fort Myers, Florida recently ordered its 10th grade students to stop reading City of…
CBLDF and Florida Education Defenders Fight for City of Thieves
CBLDF and other members of Florida Education Defenders have written to Superintendent Gregory Adkins of Lee County School District to ask him to restore City of Thieves to the curriculum and respect the First Amendment rights of the students in…
Exclusive Umbrella Academy and LumberJanes for CBLDF Retail Members!
For over twenty-five years, the COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND has tirelessly advocated for the comics industry and art form, providing legal assistance and advice, educational programming, and resources for libraries and schools. Since the earliest days of the CBLDF,…
Victory in Utah for EBSCO!
News just broke on Twitter that The Utah Education Network has voted to restore access to EBSCO for K-12 students of the state. According to a local news report at the…
Get Your Classroom Ready for Halloween with The Misadventures of Salem Hyde
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…
Community, Education, Features, Fundraising, Headline, Homepage, International, media, News Blog, Uncategorized
Get Ready for Halloween with Hair-Raising Reads Signed by Neil Gaiman, Robert Kirkman, & Many More!
This week you can support CBLDF and get in the Halloween spirit with signed graphic novels featuring all sorts of grizzly ghouls and creepy creatures! Donate today to grab titles including Infidel TP, signed by Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, & Josè Villarrubia; The…