Comics legend Lyn Chevli has passed away. Co-founder of Nanny Goat Productions, along with legend in her own right Joyce Farmer, Chevli is credited as the co-publisher of some of the most important feminist works of the underground comix era.…
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A 1950s Critic’s Nuanced Take on E.C. Comics and Juvenile Readership
Looking back on the anti-comics crusade of the 1950s, it is perhaps too easy to fall back on stereotypes: dull, repressed suburbanites trying to force their children to conform and read only what they considered to be “quality literature.” But…
She Changed Comics Now Available to Benefit CBLDF!
She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics is now available to order through CBLDF! This book began as a CBLDF Kickstarter project, and because of its success, we are now able to share it with all…
Looking Back on Oklahoma’s War on Comics
With the conclusion of Wizard World Tulsa, local news outlet Tulsa World took a look back on the war Tulsa and neighboring Oklahoma cities waged against comics in the mid-1950s. From book swaps exchanging comics for perceived “higher literature” and independent review committees organized by…
Chick Tracts: Comics in the Service of Censorship
Comics evangelist Jack T. Chick died this week at 92, leaving a complicated legacy of free speech in the service of censorship. Less than a decade after comics were burned and censored by those who saw them as the cause…
Breast Cancer Self-Exam Video Censored on Facebook
Even health education isn’t safe from Facebook’s arbitrary nudity policy. The Swedish Cancer Society, Cancerfonden, ran into trouble with the social media giant earlier this month when they posted an animated breast cancer awareness video. It was taken down due to…
Thai Authorities Crack Down on Royal Critics Online and Abroad
Thai authorities are scrambling to quash any perceived insult to their late King Bhumibol Adulyadej following his death on October 13, going so far as to scrub unfavorable results from Google services including the main search engine and YouTube. They…
Signed Brian K. Vaughan Books Benefit CBLDF!
We have some great Brian K. Vaughan books available this week, including the beautiful Saga Volume One deluxe edition hardcover, Y: The Last Man Book One deluxe hardcover, and Paper Girls Volume One trade paperback! In addition to these great books, we are…
Columbia University Cancels Reading After Author Refuses Censorship
Due to concerns over maintaining the “values” of Columbia University and its radio station WKCR, a planned reading by author Laurie Stone was abruptly cancelled. A long time contributor to the Village Voice, a theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large…
Parent Complaint Leads to Censorship of Student Mural
A recent high school graduate in Scotts Valley, California is hoping to “spark a conversation about art and censorship” at her alma mater after a parent complained about nudity in her senior art project and she was given the choice…