Author: cbldf

CBLDF Signs On To Protect Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund joins nine other free speech organizations who signed a letter to Northville School District in Michigan urging them to keep the definitive edition of Anne Frank’s A Diary of a Young Girl in middle school…

C2E2 Raises More Than $16,000 for CBLDF!

Last weekend’s Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo was a huge success for CBLDF! CBLDF Deputy Director Alex Cox led the charge for the Fund, and folks lined the aisles to pick up a copy of the extremely limited CBLDF Liberty Variant…

Revival Raises Money for CBLDF With New Liberty Variant at C2E2!

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Image Comics are thrilled to announce that Revival #9 will be the next issue joining the prestigious CBLDF Liberty Variant program! Premiering this week at C2E2, this CBLDF Liberty Variant edition of the…

Vader’s Lil Princess Signed by Jeffrey Brown — Now With Sketches!

A few days ago, we launched a very cool fundraiser with creator supporter Jeffrey Brown. By donating here, you could request a personalized copy of his upcoming release Vader’s Little Princess, the follow-up to the smash hit Darth Vader and…

Why SAGA #12 Is Protected By the First Amendment

Earlier this week controversy spread over the temporary ban of Saga #12 on comiXology’s iOS app because of two small depictions of gay sexual content within the context of a larger sequence of images. The images in question appear on…

Apple Bans SAGA #12 Because of Gay Sexual Content

Earlier today word spread that Apple is refusing to offer the most recent issue of SAGA by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples within iOS Apps.  Vaughan issued the following statement regarding the ban: As has hopefully been clear from…

TONIGHT: The Trial of Zap Comix Presentation in NYC

Tonight in NYC, see Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund present “The Trial of Zap Comix:  Comics, Counterculture & Obscenity in NYC” at the NY Comics & Picture Story Symposium. This presentation explores People v. Kirkpatrick a…