CBLDF has joined a coalition led by the Kids’ Right to Read Project to protest a principal’s actions at Ashley High School in Charleston, South Carolina. Based on a complaint from one parent and in violation of district policy, Principal…
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Retailers: Stock Up on CBLDF’s Banned Books Week Handbook, FOCs Today!
Retailers: Today is the last day to order the latest edition of the CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook! Boasting a cover by Raina Telgemeier, whose book Drama was one of America’s most frequently challenged books in 2014, the CBLDF Banned Books…
Slinging Satire: Exhibit Explores the Love/Hate Relationship with Political Cartoons
An exhibit at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s ToonSeum, entitled Slinging Satire: Political Cartoons and the First Amendment, poses the question: What does it mean to be a political cartoonist in today’s turbulent global scene and what represents “fair” satire? Broken into two…
Dynamite Entertainment Offers Third Groupees Digital Comics Bundle to Benefit CBLDF!
Dynamite Entertainment and Groupees LLC, a unique media and charity bundling site, are teaming up for their third book bundle promotion that will once again allow comic fans, and potential new fans, the chance to purchase 70 digital Dynamite comics…
Emerging Arab Comic Artists Face Censorship
London’s Shubbak Festival is a biennial celebration of contemporary Arab culture that spotlights film, music, visual, and more with programming and events. One of the programs included in the 2015 edition of the festival, which took place in July, focused…
Help Last Gasp Get Barefoot Gen Into Schools and Libraries!
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, and with this momentous date, Last Gasp associate publisher Colin Turner is using Kickstarter to help deliver 4,000+ copies of Keiji Nakazawa’s…
ACLU’s Banned Books Beach Reads
Summer’s in full-swing and what could be better beach reading than a bag full of banned books! Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, recently put together a list of her controversial favorites that prove not only to…
The Tweeks Aren’t Afraid of The Graveyard Book
A little blood isn’t going to scare off the twin tween geeks, the Tweeks! In this week’s episode of their ComicMix Challenged Challenge, Maddy and Anya Ernst take on the controversy around the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Newbery…
Adding The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel to Your Library or Classroom Collection
The Graveyard Book is a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Newbery Medal-winning prose novel of the same name. Adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell, alongside artists Kevin Nowlan, Tony Harris, Scott Hampton, Galen Showman, Jill Thompson, and…
The Return of CBLDF Grab Bags!
CBLDF is proud to present the return of the CBLDF Comics Grab Bags! Comics creators and industry professionals support the Fund in many ways, including donating comics from their own library! We’ve amassed a collection of comics spanning from the Silver…