Celebrate Pride with CBLDF! Donate to CBLDF today and grab one of these wonderful signed graphic novels that support our crucial work fighting the myriad bans and challenges on LGBTQ+ comics, including our ongoing defense of Fun Home in a New Jersey high school. Your support helps…
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Paul Pope Talks Ghost in the Shell Supporting CBLDF!
Paul Pope (THB, Batman: Year 100) started at Kodansha comics in 1995. During his five years working for Japan’s largest publishing company a lot of the things he created didn’t make it to the shelves, but because of the caliber…
Love Is Love: Activism and Community in LGBTQIA Comics
Editor’s note: This interview first appeared summer of 2017 in CBLDF Defender Vol. 2, Issue 2. As we approach the second year anniversary of the horrific shooting at Pulse nightclub, this is a look back at the queer comics community responding…
Brian K. Vaughan Supports CBLDF! Get Signed Cloak & Dagger, Runaways, Saga, & Many More Great GNs!
This week CBLDF is featuring a slew of fantastic graphic novels, all signed by acclaimed author Brian K. Vaughan! CBLDF donors can get ready for tonight’s premiere of Cloak and Dagger with a signed copy of Cloak & Dagger: Runaways & Reversals; or kill…
Kodansha Comics offers Huge Manga Humble Bundle to Benefit CBLDF
Humble Manga Bundle x Kodansha Comics: Manga to Anime Kodansha Comics has joined with Humble Bundle to bring readers a huge cache of legendary science-fiction and fantasy manga that benefits Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! 80 digital volumes of the…
CBLDF and Kids Right to Read Project Defend Fun Home
After the recent attack on Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in New Jersey, CBLDF and the Kids Right to Read Project drafted a letter of support to encourage the Superintendent of Watchung Hills Regional High…
How the Comics Code Erased LGBTQ Characters from Mainstream Comics
Fredric Wertham’s attack on comics in the early 1950s is probably most remembered today for his concern about over-the-top horror and violence from the likes of EC. But there was another aspect that preoccupied Wertham just as much: the potential…
Love Manga? CBLDF Needs Your Help!
Do you love manga and free speech? Can you tell the difference between shonen and seinen in a heartbeat? Do you have an elaborate Hellsing tattoo? Then CBLDF wants you to lend your expertise and voice to our team of…
CBLDF Podcast Episode 27: Ron Turner
In this episode, we speak with legendary publisher Ron Turner, starting with his early days as an activist, through the creation of foundational publishing house LAST GASP, the heyday of the Underground Comix movement, and a myriad of other topics…
Fun Home Under Fire in New Jersey
Fun Home is under attack again, this time in a New Jersey High School. Steve DiSturco and Mark Bisci, two parents of students at Watchung Hills Regional High School, want the award-winning graphic novel removed from the 12th grade curriculum…