In yet another chilling development for cartoonists’ freedom of expression worldwide, an Algerian appeals court this week convicted cartoonist Tahar Djehiche of insulting the country’s president and inciting mob violence via cartoon. He has appealed the verdict to the Supreme…
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Parents Demand Book Ban in Minnesota
Parents of a sixth grader in Rosemount, Minnesota, are demanding the removal of Just One Day by Gayle Forman from all district libraries, citing “a graphic sex scene, underage drinking [and] date rape” as reasons for the removal. Erin Adler…
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Two Federal Prisoners Face Additional Time for Possession of Comics
Two men serving time for child pornography charges in a federal prison in Seagoville, Texas, are now facing additional obscenity charges over the possession of drawings depicting the sexual abuse of minors. Kevin Krause with The Dallas Morning News reports…
Help Dynamite Comics Creators Support CBLDF at New Jersey Comic Expo this Weekend!
This weekend, comics fans will flock to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center to celebrate comics at the New Jersey Comic Expo! CBLDF can’t make it, but Dynamite Entertainment is going to extra mile for the Fund by asking…
VICTORY in NJ: Two Books to Remain on High School Reading List
A review committee in Rumson, New Jersey found this week that Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden and Bernard MacLaverty’s novel Cal are appropriate for upper-level high school students and thus should remain on the reading list at Rumson-Fair…
CBLDF Signs on to Protest Ohio Ban of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
For the second time in two months, CBLDF yesterday joined with other organizational members of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Kids’ Right to Read Project in sending a letter of protest to a school district that banned Jonathan Safran Foer’s…
Amityville Graphic Novel Challenged in North Carolina School
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Another Cartoonist Arrested in Iran
Iranian authorities arrested another cartoonist this week, allegedly to make him serve out a previous sentence imposed two years ago because the state “had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had,” according to his lawyer. Hadi Heidari previously…