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Writers Speak Out Loud as SC Senate Continues Debate Over Punitive Budget Cuts
As the debate rages on in South Carolina over a proposal that punitively cuts the budgets of two colleges that had incorporated LGBT-themed books — including Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home — into elective reading programs rages, writers are taking a stand.…
IRONY ALERT: Would-be Censor Arrested at School Board Meeting, Claims Violation of His First Amendment Rights
At a meeting this past Monday, the school board in Gilford, New Hampshire addressed what was expected to be a routine complaint from parent William Baer about the content of a book that was assigned in his daughter’s high school…
Look for CBLDF on Free Comic Book Day!
Since 2002, Free Comic Book Day has been the biggest event in the comic book year. This year, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is celebrating FCBD with not one, but TWO, amazing offerings! We’ve hit the ground running: Our…
Punitive Budget Cuts Don’t Fly with South Carolina Senate Finance Committee
Yesterday, the Associate Press reported an update to the proposed punitive budget cuts against two South Carolina Universities. In early March, the South Carolina House of Representatives passed a budget that cut the funding of two colleges that had incorporated…
Half Price Books Joins Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as Newest Corporate Member!
Half Price Books, the nation’s largest family-owned new and used bookstore chain, has joined the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) as its newest corporate member. Half Price Books has long been an advocate of the freedom to read and…
Humble Bundle Launches Pay-What-You-Want Image Comics Bundle, Portion of Proceeds to Benefit CBLDF
Humble Bundle has teamed up with mega-publisher Image Comics to launch Humble Image Comics Bundle today, offering up digital editions of nine New York Times bestselling, Eisner award-winning comic books starting at as little as one cent. Customers can pay…
TOMORROW NIGHT: Swamp Thing and the Comics Code in Columbus
Attention central Ohio comic nerds! Tomorrow evening in Columbus, there’s a free event you do not want to miss: a talk by creator Stephen R. Bissette on “Swamp Thing and the Birth, Life, and Death of the Comics Code.” Here’s…
The Color Purple and The Bluest Eye Challenged in North Carolina AP Class
Two frequently-challenged novels by African American authors are once again under fire in North Carolina–this time from a parent whose daughter is not even in the class where they were used. Wendell resident Dawn MacGibbon is pushing for Toni Morrison’s…
Two Boys Kissing Stays on Shelves in Virginia School System (For Now)
This week, CBLDF joined a coalition led by CBLDF-sponsored Kids’ Right to Read project to defend David Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing, which was challenged in the Fauquier High School library in Warrenton, Virginia. CBLDF joins coalition efforts like the one…