After five days in detention, Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart and eight of his colleagues at Cumhuriyet newspaper were formally arrested and charged with supporting Kurdish militants and the Gulenist movement on Saturday. They are expected to remain in jail until…
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Letter Asks Facebook to Quit Blocking Evidence of Human Rights Abuses
In light of repeated instances in which Facebook has blocked or removed posts documenting human rights violations, sometimes at the request of police or other authorities, more than 70 civil rights groups banded together this week to send a letter to…
Join CBLDF in Las Vegas This Saturday!
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…
CBLDF Advisory: CA AB 1570
California recently passed Assembly Bill No. 1570, a law that governs the sale of autographed items and is of concern to many of our members. CBLDF reached out to the lawmakers and our legal experts to produce the following advisory…
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…
Turkish Cartoonist Musa Kart Arrested with Newspaper Colleagues
Political cartoonist Musa Kart was among more than a dozen staff members arrested in yet another raid on a Turkish media outlet yesterday, the latest development in a government crackdown on the press following a failed coup attempt by some…
Washington Parent Objects to Pixelated Genitals in Mangaman
After coming across one instance of pixelated genitals in the YA graphic novel Mangaman, a mother in Issaquah, Washington, plans to formally request that the book be removed and/or restricted in the library at her 14-year-old son’s high school. In…
A 1950s Critic’s Nuanced Take on E.C. Comics and Juvenile Readership
Looking back on the anti-comics crusade of the 1950s, it is perhaps too easy to fall back on stereotypes: dull, repressed suburbanites trying to force their children to conform and read only what they considered to be “quality literature.” But…
She Changed Comics Now Available to Benefit CBLDF!
She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics is now available to order through CBLDF! This book began as a CBLDF Kickstarter project, and because of its success, we are now able to share it with all…
Thai Authorities Crack Down on Royal Critics Online and Abroad
Thai authorities are scrambling to quash any perceived insult to their late King Bhumibol Adulyadej following his death on October 13, going so far as to scrub unfavorable results from Google services including the main search engine and YouTube. They…