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CBLDF Comics Code Variant Cover Madness!
The CBLDF office staff is back from a multi-show stint on the road, and we have returned with comics. But not just any comics. Namely, comics with exclusive, awesome, variant covers, just for YOU, the esteemed CBLDF donor! Many of…
Look for CBLDF on Free Comic Book Day!
Since 2002, Free Comic Book Day has been the biggest event in the comic book year. This year, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is celebrating FCBD with not one, but TWO, amazing offerings! We’ve hit the ground running: Our…
Punitive Budget Cuts Don’t Fly with South Carolina Senate Finance Committee
Yesterday, the Associate Press reported an update to the proposed punitive budget cuts against two South Carolina Universities. In early March, the South Carolina House of Representatives passed a budget that cut the funding of two colleges that had incorporated…
Spiked Doonesbury Strip Runs in Washington Post After 41 Years
Last week, the Washington Post finally ran a Doonesbury strip that its editors vetoed in 1973. At the Post’s own Comic Riffs blog, columnist Michael Cavna examined the Watergate-era context of the strip, the paper’s rather weak justification for its…
Half Price Books Joins Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as Newest Corporate Member!
Half Price Books, the nation’s largest family-owned new and used bookstore chain, has joined the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) as its newest corporate member. Half Price Books has long been an advocate of the freedom to read and…
CBLDF Podcast Episode 2: Live from MoCCA Fest 2014!
The second episode of CBLDF’s podcast is up, and it features exclusive interviews with Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby), Fiona Staples (Saga), and Robert Williams (Zap Comix), live from the floor of the 2014 Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art…
Humble Bundle Launches Pay-What-You-Want Image Comics Bundle, Portion of Proceeds to Benefit CBLDF
Humble Bundle has teamed up with mega-publisher Image Comics to launch Humble Image Comics Bundle today, offering up digital editions of nine New York Times bestselling, Eisner award-winning comic books starting at as little as one cent. Customers can pay…
Lewd or Literary: CBLDF Executive Director to Discuss Graphic Novels at Columbia University
Are graphic novels too graphic? Lewd or literary? This Wednesday, April 30, CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein will discuss these questions and more at Columbia University. Columbia University Libraries and Information Services Rare Book & Manuscript Library are currently hosting…
TOMORROW NIGHT: Swamp Thing and the Comics Code in Columbus
Attention central Ohio comic nerds! Tomorrow evening in Columbus, there’s a free event you do not want to miss: a talk by creator Stephen R. Bissette on “Swamp Thing and the Birth, Life, and Death of the Comics Code.” Here’s…