Category: Education

Adding Kindred: A Graphic Novel to Your Library or Classroom Collection

Octavia Butler’s shift in the last 40 years to ever expanding popularity in both academia and popular culture is due not only to her brilliant (and at times prescient) work, but also to generations of fans heralding her books  to anyone…

Saga: A Comic for Every Type of Family

Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples sci-fi epic adventure, Saga,  quickly emerged as a genre-redefining, bestselling addition to the comic book canon. It rapidly picked up a shelf-full of awards from the Eisner’s, Harvey’s, Hugo’s, and even a British Fantasy…

CBLDF Salutes Certified Stores

CBLDF is proud to announce our list of Certified Stores!  These stores are trained to help educators and librarians bring comics and graphic novels into their classrooms and libraries. Make them your first call to help you bring comics to…

11 Most Popular Comics in Classrooms (with Signed Copies to Support CBLDF!)

Get signed comics and personalized copies of many of the Top Comics in Classrooms when you support CBLDF. Hurry, these special rewards are ending soon! CBLDF’s recent groundbreaking survey offered concrete evidence that teachers and students are embracing comics as valuable…

Your Voice Matters — Support CBLDF This Giving Tuesday!

This #GivingTuesday celebrate the positive power of Free Expression and get exclusive “Be The Light! Your Voice Matters” gear when you donate to CBLDF! Featuring art by Jim Lee, Jaime Hernandez, Emi Lenox with Steve Birch, and Steve Lieber/Helioscope with…

CBLDF’s 2019 Annual Report Shows How Critical Your Help Is!

Free expression withstood a wide range of attacks in 2019 and through it all, thanks to the support of donors like you, CBLDF stood proudly at the front lines and fought to protect the voices of our community this year.…

LGBTQ+ Book Removed from West Virginia Library

A West Virginia public library has pulled a children’s book one local website described as “promoting homosexuality” from the shelves after an elementary school child came across the age appropriate title. The book, Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack is…