Paul Dorr, the leader of an anti-choice, anti-LGBTQIA group called Rescuing the Perishing, posted a video of himself on Facebook Live burning children’s books borrowed from the Orange City Public Library in Iowa. According to the Sioux City Journal the…
Category: Education
Signed Umbrella Academy, Pretty Deadly, & Many More GNs Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is excited to offer our donors a slew of signed graphic novels, including Umbrella Academy TP Volumes One and Two, signed by Gabriel Bá; Daytripper TP and De:Tales HC, signed by Gabriel Bá & Fábio Moon; Walt Whitman’s “To You” Print, illustrated and signed by Fábio…
A Closer Look at Precedent in Recent City of Thieves Book Ban
By Brian Saucier Regular readers of the CBLDF news blog will recall that the Lee County School District in Fort Myers, Florida recently ordered its 10th grade students to stop reading City of Thieves by David Benioff after a parent…
CBLDF and Florida Education Defenders Fight for City of Thieves
CBLDF and other members of Florida Education Defenders have written to Superintendent Gregory Adkins of Lee County School District to ask him to restore City of Thieves to the curriculum and respect the First Amendment rights of the students in…
Exclusive Umbrella Academy and LumberJanes for CBLDF Retail Members!
For over twenty-five years, the COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND has tirelessly advocated for the comics industry and art form, providing legal assistance and advice, educational programming, and resources for libraries and schools. Since the earliest days of the CBLDF,…
Victory in Utah for EBSCO!
News just broke on Twitter that The Utah Education Network has voted to restore access to EBSCO for K-12 students of the state. According to a local news report at the beginning of October, the EBSCO shut down stemmed…
Get Your Classroom Ready for Halloween with The Misadventures of Salem Hyde
Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including…
Get Ready for Halloween with Hair-Raising Reads Signed by Neil Gaiman, Robert Kirkman, & Many More!
This week you can support CBLDF and get in the Halloween spirit with signed graphic novels featuring all sorts of grizzly ghouls and creepy creatures! Donate today to grab titles including Infidel TP, signed by Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, & Josè Villarrubia; The…
Valiant and Groupees Announce the Biggest-Ever VALIANT UNIVERSE Digital Bundle
Valiant Entertainment is excited to announce that it has joined forces with Groupees, a unique online and mobile platform for distributing media with real-time social features, for the launch of a brand new, DRM-free, pay-what-you-want digital bundle of Valiant comics – the…
City of Thieves Pulled from Florida High School
City of Thieves by David Benioff was banned from a Lee County High School in Fort Myers, Florida after a parent complained of the book being “vulgar”. The book had been randomly assigned to approximately 30 students, and the parents…