This coming weekend, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is exited to be exhibiting at one of our favorite shows of the year, EMERALD CITY COMIC CON is Seattle, Washington! Terrific things are happening at the CBLDF booth, #2518, and…
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ComicsPRO Auction Raises More Than $20,000 for CBLDF!
Thanks to the generosity of retailers, publishers, and creators at the ComicsPRO Annual meeting this past weekend, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is kicking off 2013 with a $20,000 boost! Over the course of the Friday night live auction,…
The Most Controversial Comics
Over at the Huffington Post, Max Allan Collins, the creator behind Road to Perdition, has shared a list of the most controversial comics. With the recent revelation that Fredric Wertham fabricated much of his evidence against comics in his damning…
CBLDF Showcases Creators at Emerald City Comic Con
This coming weekend, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is exited to be exhibiting at one of our favorite shows of the year, EMERALD CITY COMIC CON is Seattle, Washington! Terrific things are happening at the CBLDF booth, #2518, and…
Cuban Cartoonists: “Of course there is censorship.”
As we were traversing the interwebs today, we ran across an enlightening interview on Cartoon Movement, a website dedicated to political cartoons and comics journalism around the world. The interview is with three Cuban cartoonists, who shared their perspectives on…
Will Eisner Week Celebrates Graphic Novels, Free Speech
Each year, the week of March 6 brings us Will Eisner Week, “an annual celebration promoting graphic novels, literacy, free speech awareness, and the legacy of Will Eisner,” the father of the graphic novel. Will Eisner Week kicks off this…
Support CBLDF in Portland This Weekend!
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to kick off our year of protecting the freedom to read comics by bringing out their best for Wizard World Portland Comic Con! Matt Wagner, the legendary creator of Grendel, Mage, and…
Terry Moore Is Free to Say It
Earlier this week, longtime CBLDF artist supporter Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise, Rachel Rising, Echo) shared a couple of pages he drew for the CBLDF Liberty Annual, our yearly anthology that features stories about free speech from some of the…
Join CBLDF Tonight for ComicsPRO Auction!
Tnight, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is excited to present the Second Annual ComicsPRO Live Auction, which takes place at 8:30 pm during the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast in Norcross, Georgia! With a mix of…
Video Games: The Latest Scapegoat
Within hours of the Newtown shootings, video games were targeted as a cause of the violence. It wasn’t the first time video games were blamed, and we don’t expect it to be the last. Much like the arguments against comics…