Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), a non-profit organization protecting the freedom to read comics, is pleased to announce that Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, has added its support to the organization and its mission!…
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Tango, Two Other Books Banned From Singapore Libraries
Last week Singapore’s National Library Board, a government agency that oversees public libraries in the city-state, announced that all copies of three children’s books that mention same-sex adoptive parents have been removed from library collections and will be destroyed. One…
Militants Call for Death of The 99 Creator
Last week the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the militant group better known as ISIS, took a brief timeout from overtaking cities in Iraq to call for the death of Kuwaiti-American comic creator Naif Al-Mutawa. They claimed on Twitter…
COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL 2014: CBLDF Exclusive JH Williams “It’s Not a Trick” Signed Print
CBLDF is delighted to announce an exclusive signed print from the incomparable J.H. Williams and Todd Klein! This image first appeared in the 2011 CBLDF Liberty Annual and is now recreated exclusively for Comic-Con International 2014. This beautiful, full color, 22…
Free Speech is Patriotic with This BONE Tee!
Comic-Con International is fast approaching, and you can show both your love of comics and your love of free speech with Comic-Con’s official 2014 CBLDF Bone t-shirt! Featuring the iconic image of Jeff Smith’s Bone waving the U.S. flag, this…
John Green’s Looking for Alaska Under Attack in Wisconsin
A parent in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has decided that John Green’s Looking for Alaska is not a book her high school daughter should read. She has also decided it isn’t fit for any student in the district, so she filed a…
Nationwide Advocates Rally in Defense of Cameron Post
In the weeks since it became known that a Delaware school board removed emily m. danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post as an option on a summer reading list for incoming freshman, we’ve seen a fantastic and heartening response from…
Long-Ago Book Challenge Illustrates Importance of Library Policy
In the first half of the 20th century public libraries were strictly for edification, not entertainment. Most librarians thought nothing of excluding or removing from their collections books that were considered too frivolous (comics chief among them, of course) or…
Gabe Eltaeb’s Comic Kickoff Fundraiser to Benefit CBLDF!
If you’re anything like us, you’re counting down the hours until the hullabaloo of Comic-Con International in San Diego. To get the Comic-Con party started, you can join artist Gabe Eltaeb and Jinx Comics on Wednesday, July 23, for a…
Lost Girls Rated 18+ by New Zealand Government Censors
Almost a year ago, Auckland City Libraries in New Zealand declined to add Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls to their collection, fearing prosecution under the country’s child pornography laws. The book was subsequently submitted for review by the…