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Northwest Press Defies Apple Censorship of LGBT Content

With the recent rejection of the collected edition of the comic series Fearful Hunter from the Apple store, it looks like comic publisher Northwest Press has become another victim of Apple’s vague content policies. As Apple has become a major…

Pyongyang Movie Production Cancelled As Hacker Fallout Continues

Pyongyang cover

Following the cancellation of The Interview last week, there is already a second casualty of Hollywood’s new deference to Kim Jong-un’s sensibilities: a movie based on Guy Delisle’s graphic novel Pyongyang that was to begin filming in March. The production…

Hanover, VA, High School Student Speaks Out About Academic Freedom

In light of recent concerns regarding the “un-American” message and overall inclusion of the film Searching for the Roots of 9/11 in Hanover County, VA, academic curriculum, school officials have begun discussing the introduction of a policy that would remove the…

Neil Gaiman on Censorship and the Perception of Comics as a “Gutter Medium”

In the upcoming Winter 2014 issue of Index on Censorship magazine, political cartoonist Martin Rowson interviewed long-time free speech advocate and CBLDF Advisory Board Co-Chair Neil Gaiman on issues of censorship, comics as a gutter medium, and how graphic novels…

Clooney Warns: Cancelling The Interview Sets a Bad Precedent

The Interview poster

As everyone surely knows by now, the film industry this week suffered a blow to free expression when Sony decided to cancel the Christmas Day opening of the comedy The Interview, after hackers with suspected links to North Korea threatened…

DEFEND COMICS: Free Comic Book Day 2015 Edition!

For the second year, CBLDF is proud to be participating in Free Comic Book Day with a special, all-ages edition of Defend Comics, our anthology of tales about free speech, censorship, and the right to read! This year’s comic features…

Censorship is Great Publicity for Fun Home and Many More

Six months after South Carolina lawmakers finally reached a sort-of-compromise following a protracted debate over the use of LGBT-themed books in summer reading programs at state colleges, one Charleston-area writer looked back last week to reflect on a bright spot…

Humble Bundle & Dynamite Add MORE TITLES to Holiday’s Biggest Comics Bundle!

Humble Bundle is excited to once again be teaming with Dynamite Entertainment after enjoying an incredibly successful partnership this past summer. Dynamite is the gatekeeper to some of comics’ hottest licenses and original properties, and this go-round they will be…