As millions of American students assert their First Amendment rights in protests across the country, advocacy groups Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and National Coalition Against Censorship today released a new comic book to help protect students’ rights. Be Heard!…
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Classic Marvel GNs Signed by Hudlin, Miller, & Claremont Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with character-defining Marvel collections signed by their creators, including Black Panther by Hudlin TP Volumes One, Two, and Three, all signed by Reginald Hudlin; Daredevil by Miller & Janson Omnibus and Omnibus Companion, signed by Frank Miller; Elektra Omnibus HC, signed by Frank Miller…
Petition Against Part-Time Indian In Michigan
Parents of high school students in Midland, Michigan have opted to pass around a petition requesting the school ban Alexie Sherman’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, despite administrators clear instructions that they will only respond to a…
Ramòn Esono Ebalè Released from False Imprisonment
After being falsely imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea for five months and nineteen days, political cartoonist Ramòn Esono Ebalè was finally released on March 7th. It had been just over a week since the one day trial of Ebalè, where the…
CBLDF Joins Letter Urging Cody, WY to Reconsider Censorship
Cody school district recently banned Tanya Stone’s A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl despite a previous vote to retain it, 7 – 2, by the official KEC committee convened to review the YA book. CBLDF has joined…
Looking for Alaska Pulled from School Libraries
John Greene’s Printz Award-Winning Looking for Alaska has been pulled from West Ada School District middle school libraries in Idaho without following the formal reconsideration guidelines. The book had been only been available in the library and was not on…
CBLDF Needs Your Help! Do You Read, Sell, or Shelve Comics?
Ensuring the freedom to read starts with ensuring the best access to books possible. With that in mind Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has partnered with graduate students at University of Washington iSchool to figure out how everyone finds comic books…
GNs Signed by Robert Kirkman & Rick Remender Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with graphic novels signed by comics icons Robert Kirkman and Rick Remender! We’re offering donors the chance to pick-up The Walking Dead Volume One HC, The Walking Dead: Here’s Negan HC, The Walking Dead Volume One Omnibus HC, Invincible Ultimate…
Join CBLDF at ECCC, Starting Today! Booth #2116
Make CBLDF your first stop today at Emerald City Comic Con! We’re at Booth #2116 so come by and say hi! While you’re here, make sure to check out our killer selection of CBLDF merch and signed graphic novels. Every…
Students – Know Your Rights!
National Coalition Against Censorship has published a shareable guide to First Amendment rights for student protesters. The resource explains what parts of the students’ rights of assembly and speech are protected under the First Amendment, and what actions can be…