After months of contentious and sometimes divisive debate, the fate of Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits is set to be decided tomorrow evening. The award-winning novel was challenged in Watauga High School in Boone, North Carolina, and this…
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Sacrebleu! French Politician Attacks Picture Book
A few weeks ago, France found itself in the midst of a rare controversy over a children’s picture book after a prominent politician said on television that it made his blood run cold. The work in question? Tous à poil,…
History Repeats Itself: How Korean Manwha Met the Same Fate as American Comics
For a time in the 1980s and ‘90s, South Korean manwha enjoyed the same success as their Japanese manga neighbors. Sadly, though, while manga continued to grow and make inroads internationally, print manwha were decimated at home amidst a panic…
Hot New Premiums in the CBLDF Reward Zone!
It’s been a few weeks since we have spotlighted some of the premium items in our online donation center, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy finding new thank you gifts for people who donate. We have more premiums…
CBLDF Hosts 3rd Annual ComicsPRO Live Auction This Friday!
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is excited to once again participate in the ComicsPRO Annual Meeting this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. This meeting is one of the most important weekends of the year for the comics industry, playing host…
South Carolina Legislator Tries to Punish College for Fun Home Selection
Last summer, a conservative group in South Carolina got the vapors when Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was chosen as an optional summer reading book at the College of Charleston. The Palmetto Family Council proclaimed Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir “shocking” and…
Turning Struggling Students into Superheroes: Comic Books as Teaching Tools
With publications like Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read! and CBLDF Presents: Manga and our ongoing “Using Graphic Novels in Education” column, the Fund advocates for the use of comics to…
Adult Swim’s 1-Hour Expansion Sparks Wrath of Watchdog Group
Alarmist watchdog group the Parents Television Council has turned its focus toward Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim after an announcement that as of March 31, the programming block would begin an hour earlier. The PTC is a “non-partisan education organization advocating…
Using Graphic Novels in Education: Nat Turner
Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including…
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn: 129 Years of Rabble Rousing
Since its first American publication on February 18, 1885, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been the subject of praise and controversy. Following the adventures of Tom Sawyer’s lively comrade Huck Finn, the novel is among the first…