Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji remains in prison pending an appeal of his conviction for “violating public modesty” with an excerpt from his book Use of Life. A few brave government officials, including Minister of Culture Helmy al-Namnam, have spoken out…
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Police Demand Removal of Denver Student’s Art
Police associations and others successfully demanded the removal of a Denver 10th-grader’s artwork from a public building this week. The drawing shows a police officer in a Ku Klux Klan hood aiming a gun at an unarmed black youth with…
Ohio Middle School Student Suspended for Death Note Cosplay Prop
An Ohio middle school student’s Death Note cosplay was a little too authentic for school officials, who recently suspended her for three days after a teacher found her prop “death list” notebook with other students’ names inside. The girl was…
CBLDF Heads to L.A. for WonderCon This Weekend!
Convention season is officially in full swing, and this weekend, CBLDF is headed to Los Angeles for WonderCon 2016! You’ll find us in the Los Angeles Convention Center at booth 1617 with the debut of the CBLDF-exclusive Batman #50 variant…
UN Committee Urges Japan to Ban Sexual Violence in Fiction
Just a few months after a UN envoy recommended that Japan ban certain types of manga and anime to somehow protect real children from abuse, a separate UN committee has now entered the fray by urging the government to ban…
Now in the Rewards Zone: Nameless Signed Bookplate Edition – Extremely Limited!
Looking for an extremely limited goodie for your personal collection or for a gift? CBLDF has one for you! Out now, we have a signed and numbered edition of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Nameless, featuring a gorgeous CBLDF-exclusive bookplate with…
Florida Classroom Censorship Bills Gone–For Now
Good news! Two bills in the Florida legislature that would have facilitated challenges to instructional materials were allowed to die at the end of the legislative session earlier this month. The bills had been pushed by some of the same…
Government Forces Firing of Kenya’s Top Cartoonist
After decades of doing work for Kenya’s largest newspaper, the Daily Nation, the celebrated and most syndicated cartoonist in East and Central Africa Godfrey Mwampembwa (better known as Gado) has been fired due to suspected political pressure from the Kenyan…
Swastikas Removed From High School Production of The Producers
Out of fear of misinterpretation and parental upset over the offensive nature of the symbol, a school superintendent in Orangetown, New York made the executive decision to remove all swastikas from the school’s production of the award-winning musical The Producers—an…
Horror Comics Blamed for 1950s Scottish Vampire Panic
The year was 1954. The location: Glasgow, Scotland’s Southern Necropolis, a massive graveyard harboring over 250,000 sets of mortal remains. Over a span of three nights that September hundreds of children under the age of 14 reportedly assembled there with…