Police associations and others successfully demanded the removal of a Denver 10th-grader’s artwork from a public building this week. The drawing shows a police officer in a Ku Klux Klan hood aiming a gun at an unarmed black youth with…
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Two Indian Men Arrested For Sharing Satirical Image
Two young men from the Khargone district in Madhya Pradesh, India, have been arrested for distributing obscene material over the internet. They face a possible three to five year jail sentence. 22-year-old Shaquir Yunus Banthia and 21-year-old college student Wasim Sheikh were…
Ohio Middle School Student Suspended for Death Note Cosplay Prop
An Ohio middle school student’s Death Note cosplay was a little too authentic for school officials, who recently suspended her for three days after a teacher found her prop “death list” notebook with other students’ names inside. The girl was…
CBLDF Heads to L.A. for WonderCon This Weekend!
Convention season is officially in full swing, and this weekend, CBLDF is headed to Los Angeles for WonderCon 2016! You’ll find us in the Los Angeles Convention Center at booth 1617 with the debut of the CBLDF-exclusive Batman #50 variant…
UN Committee Urges Japan to Ban Sexual Violence in Fiction
Just a few months after a UN envoy recommended that Japan ban certain types of manga and anime to somehow protect real children from abuse, a separate UN committee has now entered the fray by urging the government to ban…
Now in the Rewards Zone: Nameless Signed Bookplate Edition – Extremely Limited!
Looking for an extremely limited goodie for your personal collection or for a gift? CBLDF has one for you! Out now, we have a signed and numbered edition of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Nameless, featuring a gorgeous CBLDF-exclusive bookplate with…
Montana Alternative School “Free the Nipple” Article Sparks District-Wide Controversy
The publication of controversial topless images and profanity in a Missoula County, Montana, high school paper has led to the recall of a school newspaper, a three-day suspension of Principal Jane Bennett, and incited serious discussion about what constitutes “obscene”…
Indian Cartoonist Strikes Back at Facebook and Censorship
Since the blocking of two of his cartoons on Facebook, Indian graphic novelist Orijit Sen had made it a personal mission to find ways to provoke audiences and inspire conversations. He spoke with Hindustan Times, discussing how Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer…
Florida Classroom Censorship Bills Gone–For Now
Good news! Two bills in the Florida legislature that would have facilitated challenges to instructional materials were allowed to die at the end of the legislative session earlier this month. The bills had been pushed by some of the same…
Support CBLDF At C2E2!
This weekend the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is excited to arrive in the City of Broad Shoulders, to exhibit at C2E2! We will be in booth 539, with a ton of great stuff new for 2016, including new CBLDF 2016 member…