A few weeks after the Parent-Teacher Organization at an elementary school in Monroe, Michigan banned the latest Captain Underpants book from a school book fair because it reveals that one of the main characters is gay, a school district on…
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San Francisco Artist Takes Matters Into His Own Hands After Being Censored
San Francisco, California, artist and SF State associate professor Victor De La Rosa took matters into his own hands by hanging four woven tapestries at a Mission District station after Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stalled for months to do…
Good Grief! Humble Bundle Books Adds More Titles to Peanuts Bundle to Benefit Charity, Including CBLDF
Last week, Humble helped kick off the holiday season with the Humble Comics Bundle: Peanuts. This week, the holiday season is even sweeter with the addition of two more titles to this exciting collection! Collecting Peanuts comics from BOOM! Studios…
NCAC Celebrates 2015 Free Speech Heroes
2015 was a busy year for free speech. To celebrate, our frequent partner in protecting free expression, the National Coalition Against Censorship (CBLDF is a sponsor of NCAC’s Kids’ Right to Read Project), looks back on 15 heroes who faced…
Chinese Cartoonist Walks a Fine Line with Subversively Cute Art
Unsurprisingly, independent political cartoonists are few and far between in China. The country’s best-known cartoonist, Rebel Pepper, has been exiled in Japan for over a year due to implicit threats from his own government. But his experience has not deterred…
14 Scandalous Books That Changed the Face of Controversy
Long before video games and comic books became the targets of censors, Americans had to settle for censoring plain old books. “In the era before TV and movies completely overtook literature as the popular entertainment du jour… novels caused their…
Literature Committee Rejects The Namesake in Idaho High School Curriculum
The Ad Hoc Literature Committee in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho has issued a formal rejection of a teacher’s recommendations to include award-winning Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake in the district’s high school curriculum. Citing explicit sexual references and language, the committee,…
Join CBLDF this Weekend at Comic Arts Brooklyn!
This weekend, join CBLDF for Comic Arts Brooklyn, a free annual celebration of comics and cartoon art presented by Desert Island! On Saturday, November 7, join CBLDF from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Mt. Carmel Gymnasium (12 Havemeyer…
CBLDF Asks Supreme Court to Reverse Decision Giving Celebrities Veto Power Over Speech
This week, CBLDF joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Organization for Transformative Works to ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision that gives celebrities veto power over creative works featuring depictions of them and to untangle…
Sandman: Overture Signed by Neil Gaiman & J.H. Williams For CBLDF Donors!
Twenty-five years since The Sandman first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman’s legendary series is back in a deluxe edition! Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams have both signed this special edition on an exclusive oversized bookplate, featuring art by Williams!…