This weekend, people will gather at comic book shops around the world to celebrate Free Comic Book Day! Don’t forget to pick up CBLDF’s Defend Comics, featuring a cover and a new Lucy & Andy Neanderthal story by Jeffrey Brown (Star Wars…
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Eisner-Nominated Books Signed by Sonny Liew, Jill Thompson, Brian K. Vaughan, & Many More Benefit CBLDF!
CBLDF is offering signed books by Eisner-nominated creators, including The Art of Charlie Chan Hocke Chye signed by Sonny Liew, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon signed by Jill Thompson, Paper Girls signed by Cliff Chiang, Saga signed by Brian K.…
Get Ready for Guardians Vol. 2 With Graphic Novels Personalized by GOTG Legend Jim Valentino & More!
It’s time to catch up with Guardians new and old for the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2! This week Jim Valentino, the writer and artist who defined GOTG in the nineties will be personalizing a select few…
Tennessee High School Removes Student’s Rainbow Artwork from Classroom Display
Administrators at a Tennessee high school recently ordered the removal of a student’s LGBTQ-themed artwork from a classroom display case after other students complained about it. Principal Bobby Wines of Volunteer High School in Church Hill cited the complaints as…
‘Seditious’ Malaysian Artist Encourages Compatriots to Hold Government Accountable
Fahmi Reza, the Malaysian graphic designer and activist who is currently facing sedition charges for depicting Prime Minister Najib Razak as a clown, took his message of resistance to Malaysian expatriates in Australia last week. Even as his case is…
Syrian Cartoonists Persevere Despite Chaos
Six years after Syria’s uprising began, the future of the country is far from certain. But one surprising result of the turbulence is already apparent: an abrupt flowering of cartoons, comic magazines, and animated shorts spreading mostly through rebel-held areas…
Deluxe Editions Signed by Brian K. Vaughan, Jason Aaron, Rick Remender, and John Layman Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with the brand-new Saga Book Two deluxe edition hardcover, signed by Brian K. Vaughan! But that’s not all — we also have deluxe hardcover editions of Saga Book One signed by Vaughan, Southern Bastards signed…
Detained Hong Kong Publisher Wins Swedish Press Freedom Award
Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai, who has been held in an undisclosed location in mainland China since October 2015 as authorities try to extract information about his customers, has been awarded the Swedish Publicists’ Association’s Anna Politkovskaya Memorial Prize for…
CBLDF Leads Defense of Manga in Idaho Middle School
CBLDF this week took the lead in defending the manga volume Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad after it was challenged at a middle school in Jerome, Idaho. Following receipt of a letter from CBLDF and other members of the NCAC’s…
Judge Finds No First Amendment Protection for Congressional Art Contest Painting
A District of Columbia circuit court judge has ruled against Rep. William Lacy Clay and David Pulphus, the 19-year-old Missouri man who sued the federal government after his painting depicting a civil rights demonstration was removed from display in a…