Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including…
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Exclusive Signed and Sketched Premiums from NYCC Now in the CBLDF Rewards Zone!
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund travels internationally to spread awareness of censorship and inform people how they can too can defend First Amendment rights. This month, CBLDF was able to attend our own local show, New York City Comic Con,…
Why Are Young Adult Books Banned Airs This Weekend on Book TV!
Why are Young Adult books banned? That’s the question on the minds of Young Adult authors David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy and Two Boys Kissing; Meg Medina, author of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which has…
Adding The Color of Earth to Your Library or Classroom Collection
The Color of Earth trilogy (First Second) by popular Korean manwha creator Kim Dong Hwa is hugely popular in his home country and has been positively received in many schools and libraries in the United States, but it has faced…
Zunar to Tour Europe Ahead of Sedition Trial
In the final weeks before his trial on nine counts of sedition is set to begin in Malaysia, cartoonist Zunar will embark on a whirlwind European tour with several speaking engagements from Oct. 26 to Nov. 4. Although the events…
Why Censorship Fails Every Time
It is a known fact that banning books doesn’t actually protect children, and censorship really does nothing more than highlight the fears of the adults who would have books pulled from schools and libraries. In a recent From the Square…
Tokyo Prison Under Fire for Banning Gay Manga
The Tokyo Bar Association issued a sexual orientation discrimination warning to the Tokyo Detention House earlier this week when it was found out that they had been explicitly refusing an inmate access to manga which depicts homosexual sex acts —…
Daryl Cagle to Speak on First Amendment and Cartooning TOMORROW in Murfreesboro, TN
Heads up for any readers in central Tennessee: tomorrow afternoon in Murfreesboro, editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle will present a free public lecture titled “First Amendment and Beyond: An Editorial Cartoonist’s Life.” Cagle’s talk–accompanied, he says, by “lots of cartoons”–will begin…
Top Cow Brings Over $600 Worth of Comics To Humble Bundle to Benefit CBLDF
Humble Comics Bundle: Udderly Gigantic Top Cow Collection launches today with over $600 of Top Cow comics available at a pay-what-you-want price. In celebration of the Top Cow Talent Hunt — a competition where the winners have their own…
6 Horror Comics You Must Read This October!
Scare yourself into the spirit of Halloween by reading some of your favorite frightening comics around the fire or under your covers! This week in the Rewards Zone, CBLDF Staff Picks collects dozens of horror and suspense reads as well as…