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The school year may be winding down for students across the United States, but upset parents in Chesterfield County, Virginia, have been hard at work the past few months in a successful campaign to have titles they call “pornographic,” “vile,”…
CBLDF Defender is our free quarterly news magazine coming to you from the front lines of the fight for free speech, and the sixth issue is now available! You can find it at comic book stores across the nation, on comiXology, and right here at CBLDF.org!…
In response to the recent event cancellation and removal of her book The Seventh Wish from a South Burlington, Vermont elementary school library, author and former middle school teacher Kate Messner took to her blog to tackle the tough topic…
In celebration of Sonic the Hedgehog’s 25th Anniversary, Humble Bundle and Archie Comics are offering up a big digital collection of Sonic the Hedgehog comics! The Humble Comics Bundle: Sonic the Hedgehog features hundreds of pages of action-packed excitement from the longest-running…
Four of the five Hong Kong booksellers who mysteriously disappeared late last year and were presumed to be in the custody of mainland Chinese authorities have returned to the semi-autonomous region, but only one is speaking openly what happened to…
If you’re a retailer, it’s time to order the trade paperback edition of CBLDF’s seminal collection of comics about the freedom to read, CBLDF Presents: Liberty (Diamond ID: MAY160672)! FOC is TODAY, so get your orders in now! Celebrate creative freedom…
If you’re a retailer, it’s time to order the trade paperback edition of CBLDF’s seminal collection of comics about the freedom to read, CBLDF Presents: Liberty (Diamond ID: MAY160672)! FOC is Monday, so get your orders in now! Celebrate creative freedom…
Five years ago this month, the Supreme Court decided in Brown v. EMA that a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional. Like every relatively new medium before them — comics in the 1950s,…
In a recent sit-down with Index on Censorship, Timothy Garton Ash, author and professor of European Studies at Oxford University, talked about his new book Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World and the increasing need for freedom of expression…
June is Pride month, so celebrate with challenged and banned LGBTQ comics! As the recent murders in Orlando demonstrate, the LGBTQ community is still facing profound adversity. That adversity extends to censorship and challenges to books featuring LGBTQ characters and/or books by members of…