Recently, a Parisian court assented to hear the case of a French primary school teacher who is suing Facebook after his account was suspended in 2011 for posting an image of Gustave Courbet’s notorious painting L’Origine du monde, which shows…
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Women Who Changed Free Expression: Banned/Challenged and Pre-Code
Happy Women’s History Month! All through March, we’ll be celebrating women who changed free expression in comics. This week we spotlight some creators whose work has been most frequently banned and challenged, plus a few who started out in the…
Charlie Hebdo Exhibit Finally Finds Home in Finland Library
Around the world, people have shown solidarity for the victims and survivors of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, but the Finnish Cartoon Society has had a much harder time finding a venue to host their own tribute exhibit “Minä olen…
Vote for ALA Conversation Starter Panel Discussing Graphic Novel Awards!
The ALA Annual Conference is coming to San Francisco, California, June 25-30, and librarians, educators, publishers, and special guests will mingle to talk about transforming our libraries! Among the events and panels is the Conversation Starter program: fast-paced, 45-minute sessions…
Enter the Children’s Book Week Display Contest and Win an Author Visit!
On May 2, comic book stores will kick off Children’s Book Week (May 4-10, 2015), the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading! Children’s Book Council, Every Child a Reader, and the ABC Children’s Group at…
Denmark Debates the Inclusion of Muhammad Cartoons in Textbooks
In Denmark, recent debates over whether the controversial political cartoons depicting Muhammad printed in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 should be included in Danish textbooks for educational purposes have raised concerns not only over the appropriateness of including such material…
Four Decades Later, Anarchist Cookbook Still Haunts Author
In a recent article for Harper’s Magazine, Gabriel Thompson took an in-depth look at the fascinating history of one of the most controversial books in recent memory: The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell. The 1971 how-to manual for everything from…
CBLDF Celebrates Women By Supporting Their Work (And You Can Too!)
Women’s History Month is a celebration of women that spans government organizations, media and entertainment, education, and more! The comics industry is no exception to this communal undertaking, and CBLDF has done our part with daily articles summarizing the innumerable…
CBLDF Presents Elephantmen: Shots – A Collection of Hard-to-Find Stories to Support a Good Cause!
Image Comics and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) join forces once again to bring readers a new Elephantmen one-shot collection in Shots #1, written by Richard Starkings and drawn by Dougie Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Boo Cook, Shaky Kane,…
Entertainment Innovator Reginald Hudlin Joins Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Board of Directors
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization protecting the freedom to read, is proud to welcome Reginald Hudlin to its Board of Directors. Hudlin is an innovative force in modern black entertainment, having written or directed such beloved…