Last weekend, CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein traveled to Tokyo for the Manga Freedom Speaking Tour, a series of presentations and meetings about free expression issues facing manga and how fans in the United States and Japan can band together…
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Using Graphic Novels in Education: American Born Chinese
Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of banned books and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine books that have been…
Artists Take On Banned Books for CBLDF
“Draw your favorite character from a banned book” were the marching orders for artists at this year’s CBLDF Banned Comics Jam. A Comic-Con tradition, at each year’s Banned Comics Jam creators reveal their creative processes and share their stories about…
Adult Anxieties Over Young Adult Fiction Endure
Every once in a while, some blogger or columnist garners a lot of pageviews by rekindling the simmering debate as to whether Young Adult fiction has become “too dark.” Two years ago, for example, this hand-wringing column from the Wall…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Challenged Again
If you’re experiencing déjà vu right now, don’t worry because we are too! Just over a month after The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky was restored to classrooms in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, the popular teen novel’s inclusion…
SDCC 2013: Sunday Events with CBLDF
Panels CBLDF’s Banned Comics Jam! Sunday, July 21 • 12:15pm – 1:45pm • Room 5AB Celebrate Banned Comics with Jeffrey Brown (Darth Vader and Son), Chris Burnham (Batman Incorporated), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash), and special guests…
SDCC 2013: Saturday Events with CBLDF
Panels CBLDF Presents: Defending Manga Saturday, July 20 • 12:00pm – 1:00pm • Room 30CDE For those in the know, manga is a powerful form of storytelling that has its roots in Japan but reaches out to speak to the…
SDCC 2013: Friday Events with CBLDF
Panels CBLDF: Raising a Reader Friday, July 19 • 12:00pm – 1:00pm • Room 30CDE An all-star panel of kids comics creators and educators discuss ways to get children excited about reading, encourage creativity, and cultivate a love of literature…
SDCC 2013: Thursday Events with CBLDF
Panels CBLDF: Banned Comics! Thursday, July 18 • 12:00pm – 1:00pm • Room 30CDE Every year comics are banned in libraries all over the United States; learn how you can fight back! In recent years, comics that have been targeted…
SDCC 2013: Everything CBLDF!
It’s here! Comic-Con International 2013 launches with tonight’s Preview Night, and CBLDF is joining the fun with exclusives galore at Booth #1920! We also have the best party of the show, the CBLDF Comic-Con Welcome Party and a spectacular assortment…