CBLDF cordially invites every student, teacher, art lover, activist, and free speech defender to join us for: The Art of MARCH: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Reception May 4 – 6:30 – 9PM Join Nate Powell, artist of the National…
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Charlie Hedbo Cartoonist Among Honored at Free Expression Awards
This year was the third annual Free Expression Awards, an honor designed by the Newseum and Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C. to recognize those who exhibit and inspire excellence and courage with their free speech. The winners this year included French cartoonist Laurent…
CBLDF Welcomes Lion Forge as Newest Corporate Member!
Publisher of “Comics for Everyone” Joins the Efforts of the Industry’s Premier Free Speech Organization Lion Forge is proud to join the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as the organization’s newest Corporate Member! Lion Forge is a trans-media studio with a focus…
Digital Comic Duo Wins Pulitzer
Breaking with their own long-established conventions, the Pulitzer committee awarded the Prize for Editorial Cartooning to the creative team behind Welcome to the New World, a digital comic book delivered in installments by The New York Times. The creators are…
CBLDF at the Library of Congress
Last September, Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of CBLDF, was honored with an invitation to speak at the Library of Congress about the history of comics and the role of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in protecting the intellectual freedom…
Banned Books Week 2018 Declares “Banning Books Silences Stories”
Banned Books Week just announced their theme for this year’s highly anticipated week of censorship awareness. The annual tradition is held is in September and features everything from library displays to special author events held all around the country, designed to…
Censorship By the Numbers: Beyond Books
This week American Library Association‘s Office for Intellectual Freedom released its 2017 Most Challenged Books list, comprised of challenges reported to them as well as those discovered by local and national news coverage. However, of the 354 challenges in 2017,…
ALA’s Banned Book Video | A Call To Activism
American Library Association released a video detailing their annual top ten list of most frequently challenged books. The video starts off with instances of censorship like an illustration of “To Kill a Mockingbird” scrawled on a chalkboard, paired with the…
Rebellion Becomes CBLDF’s Newest Corporate Member
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to welcome Rebellion, one of Europe’s leading independent publishing and game developers, as the organization’s newest corporate member! Rebellion publishes the iconic 2000 AD family of comics and graphic novels, alongside publishing imprints…
CBLDF Unveils Exclusive Shirt at C2E2 for Donors!
It’s that time of year again! CBLDF is going to be at C2E2 and we are bringing another limited edition CBLDF shirt just for Chicago! Whether you scored one or missed out on last year’s shirt, you already know these…