Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, as proud members of Florida Education Defenders, has released a fact sheet about the devastating new legislation currently in the Florida state legislature. These bills are a blatant attempt from Florida Citizens Alliance to control…
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South Carolina Principal Presented Intellectual Freedom Award
In recognition of standing up for her students and their right to read, South Carolina Association of School Librarians gave Wando High School Principal, Dr. Sherry Eppelsheimer, the Intellectual Freedom Award. This stems from an incident last year when a…
Anime Censorship in the 90s and Early 2000s
If you happened to watch the American dub of the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! back in the early 2000s, you might have noticed a few things were off. Characters would go out of their way to dramatically point at one another. They…
Retailer Spotlight: Cosmic Monkey Comics
Across town in Portland, Oregon from Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, on a busy street sits Cosmic Monkey Comics. The outside windows are painted in bright colors featuring neat caricatures of a monkey (obviously), an alien, a robot, and a…
Victory for EBSCO and Colorado Libraries May Still Chill Speech
The preposterous lawsuit against the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and EBSCO, a media aggregate database company, purporting the two conspired to traffic pornography to school children, has been dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can not be brought refiled. While this…
Student Stands Up for LGBTQIA Community and Her Own First Amendment Rights
A Fourth Grader in South Carolina is suing her school district for infringing on her First Amendment rights after they refused to accept her essay on LGBTQIA rights. The assignment was to craft a letter “to society” about something the…
Image Comics Benefit CBLDF! GNs Signed by Marjorie Liu, Robert Kirkman, Brian K. Vaughan, & More!
This week CBLDF is offering our donors the chance to grab some incredible Image graphic novels signed by their creators to benefit CBLDF! We’ve got a great selection of some of their most successful titles, including: Monstress Volume One TP, signed by Marjorie…
Seattle! Get Ready for CBLDF at Emerald City!
Are you ready for Emerald City Comicon? It kicks off tomorrow March 14, and runs through March 17. Make CBLDF your first stop at Booth #2004. We’re bringing a killer selection rewards for donations to help CBLDF fight on the front lines of free expression.…
Revisiting Preludes & Nocturnes At 30
In November, CBLDF marked the 30th Anniversary of Sandman Issue #1 by a look back at both the praise and censorship that the series has received. The series as a whole stands as one of the most lauded works in…
Unparalleled Editor, Karen Berger – She Changed Comics
Karen Berger profile by Caitlin McCabe From modern masterpieces like Y: The Last Man, Fables, and The Invisibles, to seminal classics like V for Vendetta, Preacher, and Sandman, in a time when superheroes glutted the newsstand and comic shops, the…