Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent years trying to crack down on free expression in the country. A failed July coup attempt heralded even more oppression, but much like previous attempts to stifle dissent, Turkey’s satirists are still finding ways to…
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Banned in China: Suicide Squad Unlikely to See Release Due to Violence
Things are looking dire for a Chinese release of Suicide Squad. The movie has yet to appear on the internal release calendar for the China Film Group, the state-owned movie distributor that handles all imported films, indicating that the film has not…
She Changed Comics Retail Orders Due Monday 8/8
Retailers! The final order cut off for CBLDF’s She Changed Comics published by Image Comics, is this coming Monday, 8/8. Please use Diamond order code JUL160793. She Changed Comics is a definitive history of the women who changed free expression in comics, with…
New Jersey Parent Objects to “One-Way Thinking” in Supplemental Text
A parent in Chatham, New Jersey, is asking the local school district to remove excerpts of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States from the high school curriculum, claiming that the book encourages “one-way thinking” rather than critical…
We’re Back from Comic Con 2016 with New Premiums!
After another action-packed Comic Con International, we are back with a huge assortment of awesome new premiums! First, we have a few new signed books. WHAT IS OBSCENITY (donate here) is a compelling and charming look at obscenity laws in…
Jack Davis: The Man Who Revolutionized Comics Humor
Last week, we lost a true comics legend and luminary. Jack Davis is not only remembered as a founding member of MAD magazine and contributor to EC’s diverse line of comics, but also as a man who with his incredible…
Twenty Years Later, Walmart Regrets Pulling ‘Woman President’ Shirt
Twenty years and a political generation ago, a psychologist who studied children’s perceptions of women leaders marketed a t-shirt through her local Walmart with an empowering message: a panel from Dennis the Menace with the character Margaret proclaiming that “Someday…
Anti-Nazi Disney Cartoon Pulled from Russian Extremist Materials List
CBLDF Joins Defense of Freedom to Read in Chesterfield County
CBLDF yesterday signed on to a letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship to the superintendent and school board in Chesterfield County, Virginia, defending several summer reading books that were challenged for “sexually explicit” content and urging the school district…
Unidentified Comic Among Hundreds of Books Seized in Raid on Hong Kong Fair
Authorities raided the Hong Kong Book Fair just as it was wrapping up last week, seizing more than 1400 copies of 300 different titles suspected to be obscene or indecent under local law. One unidentified comic was among the books…