There’s still time to support CBLDF’s vital work in 2014! Make a tax-deductible contribution of any amount by midnight PST on December 31, and we’ll thank you with an exclusive download of Neil Gaiman: Live At the Aladdin, the classic CBLDF…
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Censorship 2014: CBLDF Leads the Way with Banned Books Week Handbook
In late September, we take part in Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of reading. This year, the focus of Banned Books Week was comic books and graphic novels, so CBLDF led the way with the CBLDF Banned Books Week…
Turkish Government Takes Further Action Against Freedom of Speech
In light of recent events, ranging from laws implemented to restrict internet freedom while tightening governmental control to a series of police arrests made on December 14th of journalists, screenwriters, and other media agents, there is an increasing level of…
Happy Holidays One and All from CBLDF!
Courtesy of CBLDF supporter and comics censorship historian Joe Sergi, we’re delighted to offer this special treat for the holidays: “A Comics Carol,” a minicomic in which Messr. Fredric Wertham is visited by the Ghosts of Comics Past, Comics Present,…
“Allegedly Harmful” Memoir Goes to the UK Supreme Court
In early October, the UK Court of Appeals issued an injunction that stopped publication of an unnamed memoir on the grounds that its content was “allegedly harmful” to the author’s 11-year old child. On December 9, the performing artist and…
LAST DAY for the Humble Dynamite MEGA Holidays Bundle!
Humble Bundle and Dynamite Entertainment have teamed up for one of the biggest bundles ever offered — the Humble Dynamite MEGA Holidays Bundle — but you better act fast! Your chance to pay what you want for 140+ comics and…
Indonesian Editor Could Face Jail Time for Cartoon
An Indonesian newspaper editor could face up to five years in prison for blasphemy because of a political cartoon criticizing ISIS that his newspaper published in July. Some Indonesian fundamentalists complained that a modified ISIS flag bearing a pirate-style skull…
Northwest Press Defies Apple Censorship of LGBT Content
With the recent rejection of the collected edition of the comic series Fearful Hunter from the Apple store, it looks like comic publisher Northwest Press has become another victim of Apple’s vague content policies. As Apple has become a major…
Pyongyang Movie Production Cancelled As Hacker Fallout Continues
Following the cancellation of The Interview last week, there is already a second casualty of Hollywood’s new deference to Kim Jong-un’s sensibilities: a movie based on Guy Delisle’s graphic novel Pyongyang that was to begin filming in March. The production…
Hanover, VA, High School Student Speaks Out About Academic Freedom
In light of recent concerns regarding the “un-American” message and overall inclusion of the film Searching for the Roots of 9/11 in Hanover County, VA, academic curriculum, school officials have begun discussing the introduction of a policy that would remove the…