On Saturday, comics fans around Las Vegas will gather for the Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival, and CBLDF will be on hand at artist’s Alley table #40 with She Changed Comics and more! The Vegas Falley Comic Book Festival is a…
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NOW IN STORES: CBLDF Liberty Annual 2016
Now in stores around the country: the 2016 edition of CBLDF Liberty Annual, our annual anthology celebrating the freedom to read comics! Shipping on the eve of the U.S. election, this year’s installment of CBLDF Liberty Annual is a call to optimism…
MA School Administrators Keep First French Kiss on Optional Reading List
A complaint about “sexually explicit” content in First French Kiss, a book that was included on the Taunton, Massachusetts, high school’s optional summer reading list, was struck down when school officials opted to keep the book in the curriculum. First French Kiss and…
WA Early Achievers Program Raises Censorship Concerns
Broad language used in a Washington State Early Achievers program that singles out specifically “fables, fairy tales, and nature/science books” has raised concerns about censorship in daycares across the state. Part of the Early Start Act, which was signed into law…
Laurie Stone Responds to Censorship
On October 9, author Laurie Stone was supposed to read an excerpt from her new book Life as an Animal for Columbia University’s student-run WKCR radio. But when the station demanded she excise material from the reading, she declined, leading…
Remembering Lyn Chevli, A Woman Who Truly Changed Comics
Comics legend Lyn Chevli has passed away. Co-founder of Nanny Goat Productions, along with legend in her own right Joyce Farmer, Chevli is credited as the co-publisher of some of the most important feminist works of the underground comix era.…
Looking Back on Oklahoma’s War on Comics
With the conclusion of Wizard World Tulsa, local news outlet Tulsa World took a look back on the war Tulsa and neighboring Oklahoma cities waged against comics in the mid-1950s. From book swaps exchanging comics for perceived “higher literature” and independent review committees organized by…
Columbia University Cancels Reading After Author Refuses Censorship
Due to concerns over maintaining the “values” of Columbia University and its radio station WKCR, a planned reading by author Laurie Stone was abruptly cancelled. A long time contributor to the Village Voice, a theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large…
RETAILERS: Last Day in CBLDF Membership Drive!
Every year, Diamond Comic Distributors runs a CBLDF membership drive through Previews. Now’s the time to join the fight for free speech — the drive FOCs TODAY! During this drive, CBLDF puts together a kit of exclusive variants and other goods for…
CBLDF Joins Letter Urging VA School District to Repeal Prior Review Policy
A portion of School Board Policy 9.46 that allows Virginia principals to review school newspaper content in the Falls Church City School District prior to publications is getting severe backlash in the free speech community. CBLDF joined NCAC and other free…