Earlier this year, a challenge filed against Gender Queer, Fun Home, and Blankets resulted in their removal from the Radnor Township School District high school library in southeast Pennsylvania. Opponents of these graphic novels also filed a police report calling…
Another week, another challenge to Raina Telgemeier’s Drama, as a public library in Florida, following an official state book removal list, is reclassifying the book as “Adult,” not for minors. Reclassifying might sound better than an outright ban, but it’s…
This published and then withdrawn digital poster from ICE illustrates why monitoring border policy is essential. It also highlights why understanding the publications exemption for new reciprocal tariffs is so important, as border agents have the authority to seize goods…
We’ll return to where things stand with the financial aspect of comics-related tariffs in my next post, but for this I want to respond to a question we’ve received several times in recent weeks: could we see a revival of…
In my previous post, I noted an aspect of Trump’s tariffs that has received little to no media attention: the evident exemption for books and other publications, including graphic novels, comics, and manga. Today we’ll take a more detailed look…
The imposition of draconian reciprocal tariffs has justifiable generated serious concern over their potential impact on comic periodicals, graphic novels, manga, and comics-adjacent merchandise, such as apparel, cosmetics, action figures, statues, and games. What does the President’s April 2nd Executive…
Thanks to our amazing speakers and everyone who attended our @WonderCon panels, asked great questions, & expressed support! Thanks also to everyone messaging about our website & socials posts re visas, censorship news, etc. More of those to follow tomorrow…
Join us this weekend at WonderCon for two panels on cutting-edge issues in comics culture! Saturday, March 29, at 1pm in Room 213CD: What’s Next for Comics Censorship, with the CBLDF’s Jeff Trexler, San Diego State University Lecturer Mary Stout,…
Thanks to everyone who has sent us reports on new Texas & Alabama legislation that could have a significant chilling effect on comics, graphic novels, and manga.
The Florida Senate’s new version of anti-graphic-novel bill SB1692 refocuses its attack on comic images. One of the key points in the CBLDF’s successful defense against the attempt to find Gender Queer obscene in Virginia was our argument that the…