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Make a difference in your community when you support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Join the Fund during our 2013 Be Counted member drive and we’ll help schools and libraries in your community by sending them copies of our…
Banned Books Week is here, and libraries across the country have banned and challenged books on display. This year, the King Library at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (151 South Campus Avenue), is focusing on comic books in particular! In…
Celebrate Banned Books Week by watching CBLDF’s Hangout on Air with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer on Google+! We’re going to be talking Banned Books Heroes — the people who wrote the challenging books that inspire us, the…
This Saturday, celebrate Banned Books Week at Kinokuniya Bookstore (across from Bryant Park) where they’re hosting a membership drive for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Every year manga is banned and challenged all over the world. CBLDF is the…
This week may be Banned Books Week, but last week was all about banning books, from the ban of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in North Carolina, to a challenge against Eleanor & Park that led to the cancellation of a…
Because of their visual nature, comic books are an easy target for a would-be censor. What might be acceptable in a prose paragraph is not necessarily accepted in a static image. Let’s take a look at some of the titles…
Celebrate Banned Books Week with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer on Tuesday for CBLDF’s Hangout on Air on Google+! We’re going to be talking Banned Books Heroes – the people who wrote the challenging books that inspire us,…
Seemingly within minutes of the tragic D.C. Navy Yard shooting, video games became part of the conversation. Shooter Aaron Alexis’s friends and family mentioned Alexis’s frequent video game play, some calling it obsessive, and foreign news outlets translated this to…
Celebrate the start of Banned Books Week by supporting Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the Brooklyn Books Festival, this Sunday, September 22, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza! CBLDF will be on hand with signed premiums and a special…
Brigid Alverson with MTV Geek recently sat down with CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein to discuss CBLDF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices, a definitive handbook about manga for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who has an interest in…