Banned Books Week launches this Sunday, September 21, and CBLDF has events planned coast to coast all week to celebrate the freedom to read! From New York City to California, CBLDF will spend the week celebrating comics and graphic novels…
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Free Posters and Resources for Banned Books Week!
Banned Books Week is coming right up next week, September 21-27, and we have some great free resources for librarians, teachers, retailers, and anyone else who wants to celebrate! First, the posters. That beauty at right featuring characters from banned…
Presenting the Humble Valiant Bundle: A Massive Digital Collection Benefiting CBLDF, Hero Initiative, and Doctors Without Borders
Pay what you want for Valiant’s ultimate digital comic collection of your favorite titles and characters, while supporting charities that make truly heroic differences around the world. Humble Bundle and award-winning comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment are proud to present…
Friday 9/19 – Brandon Graham in NYC For CBLDF!
This Friday, September 19, Brandon Graham, the acclaimed cartoonist of the highly influential graphic novels King City and Multiple Warheads, and the driving force behind the genre-bending science fiction series Prophet is benefiting CBLDF with a lecture and party in New York City at the Society…
Dynamite Digital Adds Bitcoin Option, 10% Goes to CBLDF!
Dynamite Entertainment is excited to announce the addition of Bitcoin as an accepted form of payment at http://dynamite.com/digital/, the company’s recently-launched digital store for DRM-Free digital comics. The Bitcoin payment system joins existing payment options that include Visa, Mastercard, American…
Bill Teoh: From Comics Censor to Comics Retailer
Bill Teoh, the 80-year-old owner of one of the few comic book stores in Singapore, took an unlikely path to that business. Before opening Comics World in 1987, Teoh was a police inspector on the censorship board that reviewed and…
Gilbert Hernandez Signing Friday at Cosmic Comics in Las Vegas!
This Friday at Cosmic Comics in Las Vegas, Gilbert Hernandez and other area creators will be signing and sketching to benefit CBLDF! For a $10 donation, this is your chance to get a signed Harbinger #25 SDCC Liberty Variant. Hernandez…
Public Libraries Are for Everyone: A Response to the Illinois Family Institute
Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute thinks that librarians who celebrate Banned Books Week are hypocrites. In an article on the organization’s website last week, she argued that the real banned books are not the oft-targeted ones like And…
Retail Orders for CBLDF Liberty Annual 2014 Due TODAY!
Retailers: Today is the last day to place orders for CBLDF Liberty Annual 2014! To get you — and fans of the right to read everywhere — ready for this all-ages event, we’re delighted to share a video with CBLDF…
Absolutely True Diary Restricted in Brunswick County Schools
One North Carolina woman’s months-long crusade against Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian culminated this week with a disappointing compromise: the book will remain in Brunswick County middle school libraries, but will be kept behind the…