Today, we are auctioning our final FIVE prints of “The Day the Saucers Came.” This extremely limited poster is signed and remarked by CBLDF supporter and bestselling author Neil Gaiman. The poster art is by Jouni Koponen and includes everything from…
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Barefoot Gen Ban Lifted
In a victory for free speech, the Matsue City school board overturned an order that banned renown anti-war manga Barefoot Gen from school libraries. Keiji Nakazawa’s celebrated series was removed from shelves after a complainant — one who does not…
South Korean Child Pornography Law Targets Drawings, Animation
In 2011, the National Assembly of South Korea revised laws surrounding child pornography to cover materials featuring “creations of persons who can be perceived as minors” in sexual situations, expanding the definition of illegal practices to include the perceptions of…
Violent Content Research Act Raises Free Speech Concerns
Video games, the latest scapegoat in the war against gun violence, are being faced with yet another attempt to stifle their First Amendment rights. As a result of the Sandy Hook massacre and other recent tragedies, a new act is…
Signed Poster Day on eBay!
Today, we continue our series of eBay auctions with SIGNED POSTER DAY! Signed Poster Day begins with this Heroes for Hire poster, donated and signed by artist Khary Randolph (X-Men, Hellboy). With help from Emilio Lopez, Randolph’s reimagines the fan-favorite Marvel…
The Inconvenience of Barefoot Gen
Translator and manga industry expert Dan Kanemitsu submitted the following opinion piece on the recent ban of Barefoot Gen from the perspective of being close to the ground in recent battles involving manga regulation in Japan. In December of 2010,…
Tome Volume 1: Vampirism Up for Bid on eBay!
Neil Gaiman, Jock, Dave McKean, Francisco Francavilla, Becky Cloonan, Matt Wagner, Jill Thompson, Steve Niles, and Jeff Lemire are just a few of the writers and artists that contributed to TOME Volume 1: Vampirism! The first in a series of annual…
New Zealand Library Refuses to Carry Lost Girls
When New Zealand cartoonist Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville, Batgirl) requested that his local Auckland library purchase a copy of Alan Moore’s Lost Girls, the library denied his request with the argument that the book potentially violated New Zealand law. Horrocks received…
Obscenity Case Files: Smith v. California
It was established in Roth v. United States that the freedom of speech would not extend to materials that were considered obscene. But what happens to a book store that unknowingly carries books that contain obscene material? Is a book…
Indianapolis Library Refuses to Censor Erotic Novel
An Indiana library is facing some heat after a 9-year-old obtained an erotic novel using the self-check out system. After the child left the library with a copy of the erotic novel Night Games by Crystal Jordan, the child’s grandmother,…