Many people may not recognize Rose O’Neill’s name until you mention her most famous creation: Kewpies. O’Neill became one of the highest paid illustrators (male or female) of the early 20th century largely because of her cherubic creations, but she didn’t sit on her laurels — she used her fame and popularity to campaign for women’s right to vote.
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VICTORY in Wisconsin: The Glass Castle Remains in High School Curriculum
In another victory for the freedom to read, a school district review panel in Marshfield, Wisconsin unanimously voted last week to keep Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle in the curriculum for high school sophomores. A parent initially complained of…
CBLDF Joins Coalition Opposing Oklahoma Science Bill
CBLDF has joined a letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship opposed to an Oklahoma bill that would allow teachers to impose personal beliefs on “scientific controversies” rather than adhering to scientific consensus. CBLDF joins coalition efforts like these to protect…
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, Jill Thompson’s Wonder Woman: True Amazon, and More Signed Books to Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with great books including Norse Mythology, View from the Cheap Seats, DC Universe by Neil Gaiman, Sandman: Overture, Absolute Sandman Volume One, and Absolute Death — all signed by Neil Gaiman — and Wonder Woman: The…
Humble Bundle and IDW Publishing Creators Showcase Bundle Expands for Charity, Including CBLDF
IDW Publishing and Humble Bundle have joined forces on a digital comics bundle in support of charity featuring the best original titles IDW has to offer! Today, the bundle gets even bigger for your pay-what-you-want dollar, but there’s only a week…
Musa Kart and Colleagues Still in Prison Awaiting Indictment
It has now been over four months since Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart and several of his colleagues from Cumhuriyet newspaper were arrested on suspicion of supporting Kurdish militants and the Gulenist movement. There is little change to report in their…
PEN America Notes Chilling Effect of U.S. Immigration Restrictions
Even before the second version of President Trump’s travel ban was unveiled yesterday, the general unease over immigration restrictions and possible detention or questioning at U.S. ports of entry was already causing a chilling effect for international writers and artists…
CBLDF Joins Coalition Urging Return of Eleanor & Park to Oregon School District
CBLDF last week joined the Kids’ Right to Read Project to send a letter protesting the removal of Rainbow Rowell’s novel Eleanor & Park from the eighth grade curriculum in the Yamhill-Carlton School District in Oregon. The school board ignored…
EXCLUSIVE: Ariel Schrag on Stuck in the Middle Challenge
Today, CBLDF led the Kids’ Right to Read Project in defending Ariel Schrag’s acclaimed anthology Stuck in the Middle, which has been challenged in a school library in Oklahoma. CBLDF has defended the book before, thankfully seeing it restored. We…
CBLDF Leads Defense of Stuck in the Middle
CBLDF has taken the lead in defending Ariel Schrag’s Stuck in the Middle, a comics anthology that has been challenged in an Oklahoma school library. Today, we signed a letter from the Kids’ Right to Read Project in support of the…