Each year, the National Coalition Against Censorship sponsors the Youth Free Expression Project Film Contest. This week, NCAC released the videos for the 10 semifinalists, which run a gamut of film styles but all make powerful statements against censorship of…
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Community Divided Over The House of the Spirits as Final Banning Decision Draws Near
Back in November, CBLDF co-signed a letter defending Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits after an outraged parent filed complains against the book being taught in her son’s honors English class. After months of review, the Watauga county school…
CBLDF Joins Coalition Defending The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Again)
It’s a miracle if a week goes by without a challenge to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Unfortunately, the novel has been challenged once again, this time in Sweet Home, Oregon. CBLDF has joined the…
Flying Spaghetti Monster Banned From UK University Event
Pastafarians, don your colanders! Posters depicting the satirical deity Flying Spaghetti Monster were recently banned from an activities fair at a public university in London because they could be “religiously offensive,” reports The Independent. On their recruitment posters, members of…
The Lost Comics Code of Australia
The Comics Code Authority highlights one of the darkest periods of comic book history. As a direct result of criticism from the Senate, the Code was implemented by the comics industry, leading to years of self-censorship in an attempt to…
Death Note Mixed Up in Concerns Over Troubled Arizona Teen
An eighth grade student at Florence Elementary School in Florence, AZ was removed from school after showing signs of depression and sending suicidal text messages post break-up with his girlfriend. What the local media chose to focus on was a…
Retailers: Today Is FOC for Evil Empire CBLDF Comics Code Variant!
Retailers Members are invaluable partners in the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s fight for the freedom to read! Retailer Members have the exclusive opportunity to pick of variant covers of hit titles in the CBLDF COMICS CODE VARIANT series, and…
Fighting Censorship Is (Big) Easy At Wizard New Orleans!
This weekend CBLDF kicks off the 2014 convention year at Wizard World New Orleans, where we’ll be releasing the Deadly Class #1 Liberty Variant, and offering a host of new items including signed Neil Gaiman and Brian K. Vaughan books! …
Using Graphic Novels in Education: March: Book One
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…
CBLDF Presents: Liberty: Comics’ Greatest Creators Unite to Protect the Freedom to Read!
Celebrate creative freedom with the comic book industry’s top talents in LIBERTY, an anthology benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! This deluxe hardcover edition published by Image Comics collects LIBERTY ANNUAL 2008-2012, additional material not seen anywhere else, and…