Category: Education

Visas and Comic-Cons: Visa ABCs

The recent detention of cartoonist Becky Burke and ongoing ICE raids exemplify the importance of understanding U.S. immigration law, which applies both to nonimmigrant temporary visitors and immigrants leaving their home countries to reside here permanently. The heightened degree of…

Graphic Novels Restored in Radnor

Three graphic novel book covers: Gender Queer, Fun Home, and Blankets

Earlier this year, a challenge filed against Gender Queer, Fun Home, and Blankets resulted in their removal from the Radnor Township School District high school library in southeast Pennsylvania. Opponents of these graphic novels also filed a police report calling…

Visas and Comics Creators, Pt. 2: B-1, B-2, Be Careful

Image of an online nonimmigrant visa application

Since yesterday’s post, news of Becky Burke’s return to the U.K. has at least signalled the end of her detention by ICE, though in an ideal world she would have been neither detained nor forced to leave. As we now…

Visas and Comic Creators, Pt. 1

Border Patrol logo from the public domain 1951 Border Patrol comic book

The detention of cartoonist Becky Burke by U.S. immigration officials is a potent reminder of the complexity and rigor of U.S. visa laws.  We’re relieved to learn that her family has been able to secure legal assistance – we were…

Holiday update

CBLDF logo - statue of liberty with flag on which CBLDF is written

Happy holidays from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! As 2024 draws to a close, all of us at the CBLDF want to take a moment to thank you for your commitment to safeguarding the future of the medium we…

Finale: U.S. v. Comics

The medium is the massacre in the epic finale of U.S v. Comics: The Senate Effort to Censor Comic Books, which examines how televised U.S. Senate comic book hearings in 1954 led to the creation of the infamous Comics Code.…

Part 6: U.S. v. Comics

U.S. v. Comics within the image of a stamp

This week the science has spoken, as the publication of the notorious Seduction of the Innocent sets up a landmark senatorial showdown.

Part 5: U.S. v. Comics

Recent attempts to censor graphic novels and manga have resurrected the claim that comics are bad for kids’ mental health. Today’s episode of U.S. v. Comics examines the origins of this assertion in what was once considered to be cutting-edge…

Keller ISD Removes Graphic Novels for the Second Time

There are fewer books on the shelves this year in the Keller International School District. Keller ISD, in Texas, removed forty-one books before the start of school this year. Last Tuesday, the day before classes started, principals in the district…

5 Important First Amendment Reminders for Students and Schools from the Utah AG

A dutch angle of the columns in front of a court house

In compliance with a new state bill (HB 374) the Utah Attorney General released a memorandum to “provide guidance and training to public schools on identifying sensitive materials.” Though written for Utah local education agencies (LEA), the memo outlines First…