Category: Community

Banned Books Week: CBLDF Defends Dozens of Books in 2012-13

This week alone, CBLDF signed three letters defending banned books and the authors of challenged books. Banned Books Week is a celebration of the freedom to read, but a look back at all of the books we helped protect since…

Be Counted! Join CBLDF To Make A Difference in Your Community!

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…

King Library Banned Books Week Display Focuses on Comics

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…

Banned Books Week: CBLDF Defends Banned Books and Authors

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…

Banned Books Week: Challenged and Banned Comics

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…

Join Brad Meltzer’s Banned Books Week Heroes Hangout This Tuesday!

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,…

CBLDF Launches Banned Books Week at the Brooklyn Books Festival!

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…

Charles Brownstein on CBLDF Presents Manga

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…

CBLDF Talks Banned Comics at Berkeley Public Library

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, join CBLDF at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Berkeley Public Library South Branch (1901 Russell, Berkeley, CA) for “Banned Comics in America,” a presentation by CBLDF Web Editor Betsy Gomez. A…