by Jordan Smith • • Comments Off on WATCH NOW! Gender Queer in Virginia Beach: A Case Study
Watch CBLDF’s behind-the-scenes video on their recent victory in Virginia Beach defending Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir from an obscenity charge. CBLDF digital editor Jordan Smith sat down with Kobabe’s co-counsel Steven Emmert and CBLDF’s Jeff Trexler…
by Jordan Smith • • Comments Off on Virtual Event! Gender Queer in Virginia Beach: A Case Study Monday, September 19
This Sunday, September 18, marks the start of Banned Books Week 2022. As a proud Banned Books Week Coalition member, we hope you’ll join us! CBLDF is hosting a virtual event Monday at noon Eastern with an exclusive look behind the recent victory…
by Caitlin McCabe • • Comments Off on Case Study: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Artist and comics creator Phoebe Gloeckner has never been afraid to show the raw and gritty bits of reality in her work — something that possibly stems from her unique background in medical illustration. For that reason, Gloekner’s work is…
by Caitlin McCabe • • Comments Off on Case Study: Y: The Last Man
Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s post-apocalyptic series Y: The Last Man follows the story of amateur escape artist Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand, the last males on earth after a mysterious plague wipes out the males of…
by Betsy Gomez • • Comments Off on Case Study: The Graveyard Book
In February 2015, CBLDF was confidentially involved the defense of the graphic novel edition of The Graveyard Book, which was challenged in an undisclosed middle school library for violent imagery. The Graveyard Book is a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of…
by Betsy Gomez • • Comments Off on Case Study: Palomar
In early 2015, the critically acclaimed comic collection Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez was called “child porn” by the mother of a high school student in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Initially, unbiased details are difficult to come by because of biased…
by Betsy Gomez • • Comments Off on Case Study: This One Summer
Graphic novel This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki has been the source of a lot of attention since its release in 2014. A coming of age comic centered around Rose, an ordinary teenage girl, whose summer trip with…
by Betsy Gomez • • Comments Off on Case Study: Drama
Raina Telgemeier’s Drama, a graphic novel about the joys and tribulations of a middle school drama troupe, received universal critical praise upon its publication in 2012. The book received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Media, Booklist, and School Library…
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples sci-fi epic adventure, Saga, has not only become one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed comic series since its debut in March 2012, but it has also become one of the most controversial…
by Betsy Gomez • • Comments Off on Case Study: Barefoot Gen
Keiji Nakazawa’s internationally renowned manga Barefoot Gen, which depicts wartime atrocities from the perspective of the seven-year-old protagonist, has fallen victim to several challenges in its home country of Japan. Barefoot Gen is loosely based on Nakazawa’s own childhood, as…