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Humble Bundle and IDW Publishing Launch Creators Showcase Bundle for Charity, Including CBLDF

IDW Publishing and Humble Bundle are once again joining forces to launch a new digital comics bundle in support of charity featuring the best original titles IDW has to offer! The Humble Comics Bundle: Creators Showcase presented by IDW Publishing…

Join CBLDF in Seattle for Emerald City Comicon!

This weekend, March 2-5, CBLDF heads to Seattle, Washington, for Emerald City Comicon! You’ll find us all weekend at booth #737 with an assortment of exclusive premiums and more! In addition to signed books and CBLDF gear, we’ll have the…

Alaska School Board Removes Four Titles from Reading List After Parent Complaints

Five popular, award-winning, and critically praised novels were recently removed from an alternative reading list for high school students in Nome, Alaska after parent complaints, leading to a contentious public debate at a school board meeting last week where other…

Stuck in the Middle Challenged in Oklahoma School

An Oklahoma middle school last week pulled the comic anthology Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age off of shelves after one parent called it “trash” and complained of vulgarities, sexual references, and drug use in some of the…

South Carolina Education Standards on Islam Under Attack

People in Texas and Oklahoma seem to be leading an online attack against social studies education standards that call for instruction about Islam. The problem? Those standards are for schools in South Carolina. The South Carolina Grade-Level Standards for Social…

CBLDF Joins Defense of The Glass Castle

CBLDF has joined the Kids’ Right to Read Project in defending Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, from a challenge in Marshfield, Wisconsin. CBLDF is a sponsor of KRRP. CBLDF joins coalition efforts to protect the freedom to read comics. Censorship…

Saudi Fans Flock to Kingdom’s First Comic Con

Saudi fans of comics and all things geek made history last week with the kingdom’s first ever Comic Con. Despite fevered criticism from traditionalists who accused them of “devil worshipping,” men and women alike put on their best cosplay and…

Jonathan Hickman, Kieron Gillen, Brian Azzarello, and More Signed Books Reward Your CBLDF Donation!

We have some great new signed premiums this week, including East of West: The Apocalypse Year One hardcover signed by Jonathan Hickman, The Wicked & The Divine Year One hardcover signed by Kieron Gillen, Airboy deluxe hardcover signed by James Robinson, Joker signed…

Wisconsin Parent Wants The Glass Castle Out of Curriculum

A parent in Marshfield, Wisconsin has filed a challenge to Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle, saying that high school students “deserve better” than a book he describes as “full of foul language, and explicit and disturbing materials.” In accordance…