Iranian authorities arrested another cartoonist this week, allegedly to make him serve out a previous sentence imposed two years ago because the state “had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had,” according to his lawyer. Hadi Heidari previously…
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Palestinian Cartoonist Under Fire for Controversial Conflict Cartoons
Book Challenge Debates Often Fuelled by Willful Ignorance
Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David K. Shipler’s book The Working Poor: Invisible in America was one of seven that were briefly suspended en masse from the school district curriculum in the affluent Dallas enclave of Highland Park. Although the…
World Cartoonists Respond to Paris Attacks
Since Friday night’s coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and injured 352, the international community has joined with France and its capital in demonstrations of mourning and solidarity. With much of the memorialization taking place on social…
Top Malaysian Court Finds No Justification for Ban on Zunar Books
Malaysia’s highest court this week upheld a lower court’s lifting of a ban on two cartoon books by Zunar, Perak Darul Kartun and 1 Funny Malaysia. The five-judge panel of the Federal Court ruled that the Home Ministry had shown…
Russia Charges Librarian with “Inciting Ethnic Hatred” Through Books
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine manifested in particularly chilling fashion last month, as the director of a Ukrainian-language library in Moscow was detained by Russian authorities and charged with “inciting ethnic hatred” through books in the library’s collection. If convicted,…
Egyptian Novelist Sent to Court for Racy Excerpt
UPDATED: Michigan Superintendent Notifies Parents of Gay Character in Captain Underpants Book
A few weeks after the Parent-Teacher Organization at an elementary school in Monroe, Michigan banned the latest Captain Underpants book from a school book fair because it reveals that one of the main characters is gay, a school district on…
San Francisco Artist Takes Matters Into His Own Hands After Being Censored
Good Grief! Humble Bundle Books Adds More Titles to Peanuts Bundle to Benefit Charity, Including CBLDF
Last week, Humble helped kick off the holiday season with the Humble Comics Bundle: Peanuts. This week, the holiday season is even sweeter with the addition of two more titles to this exciting collection! Collecting Peanuts comics from BOOM! Studios…