Author: Jeff Trexler

Visas and Comic-Cons: Free Speech and Paid Work

Snoopy from Peanuts typing "It was a dark and stormy night ..."

Attending a comic-con on a tourist visa or ESTA is a relatively low-risk endeavor for a fan with a hotel room who is just going to enjoy the experience. So long as you limit your activity to seeing panels and…

Visas and Comic-Cons: Visa ABCs

The recent detention of cartoonist Becky Burke and ongoing ICE raids exemplify the importance of understanding U.S. immigration law, which applies both to nonimmigrant temporary visitors and immigrants leaving their home countries to reside here permanently. The heightened degree of…

This Week: Visas and Comic-Cons

Cover of the book "Banned Book Club," with a person holding a book

Now that convention season is well underway, one of the most frequent questions we’ve been hearing here at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is whether it’s safe for creators from other countries to go to comic-cons in the U.S.…

Peter David

Peter David Autograph Liberty Trading Card

R.I.P. to legendary comics creator and former CBLDF board member Peter David, who understood.

CBLDF’s May Update

The following is the CBLDF’s latest email update, sent to members earlier this month! _________________________ The past few months have been an absolute whirlwind. The surge in challenges to free expression through the the comic arts had been intense prior…

Texas HB1375 UPDATE

Confirmed! Texas House Bill 1375 will not become law unless it gets attached to a live bill. We’re still watching what happens with House consideration of Senate bills – SB20, which allows for an unconstitutional prosecution for possessing certain cartoons…

Texas HB1375 goes to full House

Poster for the film "It's Alive," featuring a cradle in darkness

HB1375, the Texas bill that, if enacted, will authorize filing lawsuits against comic shops for selling graphic novels that anyone finds objectionable, made the House calendar at the last minute. This means that the bill will be considered tomorrow (Thursday,…

Texas HB1375: Legalizing frivolous comic shop lawsuits

UPDATE (May 14): HB1375, the Texas bill that, if enacted, will authorize filing lawsuits against comic shops for selling graphic novels that anyone finds objectionable, made the House calendar at the last minute. This means that the bill will be…

Graphic Novels Restored in Radnor

Three graphic novel book covers: Gender Queer, Fun Home, and Blankets

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…

Drama drama in Florida – and more

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…