CBLDF has the best holiday gifts for the fan in your life in our Spirit of Giving holiday fundraiser, but now’s the time to act — the campaign ends TODAY at midnight PST! You can get outstanding graphic novels personalized…
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Indian Newspaper Under Legal Fire For Publishing ISIS Cartoon
A controversial cartoon printed in the Sunday edition of Indian newspaper Marathi Daily has put the owner, editor, and cartoonist in hot water with the Islamic community. Called “blasphemous” and religiously insensitive, the cartoon accompanied an article entitled “ISIS Money”…
Frank Miller, Phoebe Gloeckner, Goon, & The Fifth Beatle Join CBLDF Spirit of Giving Holiday Fundraiser!
Frank Miller, Phoebe Gloeckner, Eric Powell, Vivek Tiwary, and Andrew Robinson have added their support to CBLDF’s SPIRIT OF GIVING Holiday Fundraiser! Plus, we have new items from Neil Gaiman and Alison Bechdel! Get the best gifts for the comics fans on your list…
VICTORY: Review Committee Votes to Keep Book in MN School District
In a victory for the freedom to read, a review committee in Rosemount, Minnesota, has voted 7-4 to keep Gayle Forman’s Just One Day in district libraries. Ben and Kandi Lovin, parents of a sixth grader in Rosemount, Minnesota, demanded the…
New Project Aims to Map Social Media Censorship
Since our cultural communications have moved increasingly online, often to spaces controlled by large corporations such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, free-speech advocates have watched in dismay as those entities have inconsistently enforced content policies. Unlike U.S. government entities such…
New Graphic Novel Challenges Free Speech Limitations
A new graphic novel by the European Youth Press explores the state of free press in Europe as seen through the eyes and pens of young European cartoonists and journalists coming into their craft. Entitled Free Our Media, the graphic…
CBLDF Liberty Annual Named One of the Most Outstanding Comics of the Year!
The CBLDF Liberty Annual 2015 has been named one of The Village Voice’s outstanding comics of 2015! Alongside fourteen other great books, the CBLDF Liberty Annual 2015 stands proudly as probably the most hilarious book on the list. A tribute…
CBLDF Joins Coalition Defending Challenged Book in MN School District
CBLDF has joined the Kids’ Right to Read Project and other freedom to read advocates to defend Gayle Forman’s Just One Day in a Minnesota school district. CBLDF joins coalition efforts like these to protect the freedom to read comics.…
WI Community Takes Matters Into Their Own Hands After School District Cancels Reading Over Legal Threat
In response to Mount Horeb School District’s recent decision to cancel a reading of the children’s book I Am Jazz in response to a lawsuit threat from the Christian nonprofit Liberty Counsel, the Wisconsin town is taking matters into their…
Humble Book Bundle: Prime Sci-Fantasy Expands to Benefit CBLDF and Other Worthy Causes!
What better way to escape the holidays than with the Humble Book Bundle: Prime Sci-Fantasy, a stack of digital books that explores entirely different worlds and benefits charity?! As of today, you get even more adventure for your pay-what-you-want dollar!…