Good news from Minnesota! Following receipt of a letter from National Coalition Against Censorship member organizations including CBLDF, the principal of New London-Spicer Middle School responded that she will recommend keeping Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…
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GNs Signed & Sketched by Stan Sakai, Kevin Eastman, Geof Darrow, & More Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is offering some beautiful signed and sketched books to reward your donations! Books include Usagi Yojimbo: Senso HC, signed and sketched by Stan Sakai; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ultimate Collection HC, signed and sketched by Kevin Eastman; Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp…
Pre-orders Open for Resist! Volume 2, in Stores for July 4
Get your pre-orders in now for the second volume of Resist! from Françoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman! After the smashing success of the political comics newspaper, 58,000 copies of which were handed out on Inauguration Day and at Women’s Marches…
CBLDF Joins Defense of Thirteen Reasons Why in Florida School
After a Florida elementary school pre-emptively banned students from bringing personal copies of Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why onto campus, CBLDF yesterday joined with other members of NCAC’s Kids’ Right to Read Project in urging principal Bryan Dolfi to reconsider.…
Egyptian Court Vacates Ahmed Naji Conviction, Orders Retrial
An Egyptian court yesterday ordered a retrial for novelist Ahmed Naji, who spent 10 months in prison for “violating public modesty” with an excerpt from his book Use of Life which was reprinted in the state-owned Akhbar al-Adab newspaper. Naji…
College Courses on Graphic Novels Criticized as Less ‘Intellectually Demanding’
We may be biased (we’re biased), but it is difficult to see how the increased use of comics in higher education could be a bad thing. Starting with Art Spiegelman’s Maus over thirty years ago, educators at all levels have…
Groo Friends & Foes HC Signed By Sergio Aragonés, Plus Matt Wagner & Kevin Eastman Signed Books!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with the soon-to-be released Groo: Friends & Foes HC, signed and sketched by Sergio Aragonés! We’re also offering a few more Groo titles, as well as The Spirit Returns and The Art of…
CBLDF Signs on to Defend Part-Time Indian in Wisconsin School District
As a Wisconsin school superintendent prepares to make a recommendation regarding a challenge to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, CBLDF this week signed on to a letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Kids’ Right…
Farghadani Gives Firsthand Account of Imprisonment for Cartoon
Just over a year ago, Iranian artist and activist Atena Farghadani was released from prison after 18 months. Her so-called crime: drawing Iranian MPs as apes and bovines while they debated a bill toban voluntary sterilization procedures such as vasectomies…
Librarians Brainstorm Solutions to Build and Defend Graphic Novel Collections
Now more than ever before, comics are an indispensable component of many public libraries’ collections. A decade or two ago they might have been treated as ephemera, but today they are often curated with the same level of care as…