It’s that time of year again: This week, the American Library Association released its list of the top ten most challenged books for 2016. CBLDF has joined in the defense of several titles on the list, so today we’re taking a…
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Florida Classroom Censorship Bills Pass Through Committee, Await Final Hearing Before Vote
The two nearly identical bills in the Florida legislature that would facilitate challenges to classroom materials have both advanced through the Education Committees in their respective chambers, despite warnings from CBLDF and our partners in the National Coalition Against Censorship…
This One Summer Tops ALA’s Top Ten Challenged Books List
Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s award-winning graphic novel This One Summer sits at the top of the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books in 2016. Other comics in the top ten are Drama by Raina Telgemeier and Big Hard Sex…
She Changed Comics: Teaching Resources Now Available!
Thanks to your overwhelming support, we didn’t just fund She Changed Comics, our resource about the women who changed free expression in comics — we also funded teaching guides for higher education, high school, and middle school. Those guides are…
Join CBLDF for MoCCA Fest This Weekend!
This weekend finds CBLDF on both coasts — WonderCon in Anaheim and the one and only MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City! During MoCCA Fest, you’ll find us at booth G236-237, where we’ll host Cliff Chiang for signings each day…
Join CBLDF at WonderCon Anaheim This Weekend!
WonderCon has returned to Anaheim this year, and we’ll be there to fight for the freedom to read comics! Find us at booth #1209 at the Anaheim Convention Center, March 31 – April 2, with a slew of signed goodies…
She Changed Comics: It’s Not the National “Men’s” Cartoonists Society
Edwina Dumm, Barbara Shermund, and Hilda Terry helped pave the way for women in the cartooning business today. These women produced persuasive illustrations for the suffrage movement and emphasized the strength of women in daily life, often with notable humor, and…
Cartoonist Vilma Vargas Responds with More Humor in Face of Opposition
Cartoonist Vilma Vargas is from a country that has been none too kind to political dissent: Ecuador. President Rafael Correa has seemingly made a sport of censorship, which frequently targets cartoonists. Vargas’s work confronts human rights violations, endorses women’s rights,…
She Changed Comics: Lou Rogers, Advocate for Women’s Rights
When Lou Rogers first tried to break into political cartooning around 1908, “Editors said there were no women cartoonists,” a reporter and childhood friend recalled about 15 years later. “They said women couldn’t even draw jokes. They hadn’t any humor”…
Now Available: CBLDF Defender Vol. 2 #1, Featuring G. Willow Wilson!
CBLDF Defender is our free quarterly news magazine coming to you from the front lines of the fight for free speech, and the latest issue is now available! You can find it at comic book stores across the nation, on comiXology, and right here at CBLDF.org!…