Comic Con International is a busy week for the CBLDF. Aside from the excellent programs, panels, and evening events we have going on, we will also be hosting a full slate of signings and booth appearances. Please stop by and…
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SDCC 2013: CBLDF’s Comic-Con Welcome Party, Sponsored by Image Comics, comiXology, and Aces Weekly!
Start your Comic-Con with the greatest stars in comics at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Comic-Con Welcome Party, sponsored by Image Comics, comiXology, and Aces Weekly, with special gallery displays from TFAW.com and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab! The fun…
SDCC 2013: CBLDF Live Art Auction — Items from Jim Lee, Neil Gaiman, Charlie Adlard & More! Introduced by Cory Doctorow!
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund hosts its biggest auction of the year at Comic-Con — the CBLDF Live Art Auction, happening on Saturday, July 20! Author and activist Cory Doctorow kicks off this year’s auction with a special introduction.…
Exit Wounds Artwork Defaced by Student at German University
As the world becomes a more globalized place, artists have the ability to reach a wider and more diverse audience than ever before, but with that new, larger audience comes the ability to offend, as well as inspire, a greater…
SDCC 2013: Exclusive Adventure Time and Quantum & Woody Variants Top CBLDF’s Awesome Debut Premiums!
Next week, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund arrives in San Diego for Comic-Con International with a bunch of exciting new fundraising premiums! Let’s take a look at some of the exciting new items you’ll find at booth #1920…
Japanese Researcher Declares Manga and Anime Good for Children
How many times did your parents tell you to stop reading comic books or watching cartoons so you can read a “real book”? One researcher in Japan is telling parents to stop denying manga and anime to their children because…
SDCC 2013: The CBLDF Panels!
Comic-Con International: San Diego is just around the corner, and CBLDF is ready to lay down some education with panels about comics censorship, banned comics, using comics to raise a reader, and the attacks on manga! Don’t forget our ever-popular live art jam! Details follow…
Blogger Labels Acclaimed YA Novel “Child Pornography”
In June, Laurel Nokomis School in Sarasota County, Florida, convened a committee of teachers, education professionals, and more to determine the fate of an award-winning novel that was being used in an 8th grade gifted language arts classroom. The board…
Librarian Bans Book to Teach Lesson About Censorship
Librarian Scott R. DiMarco is proud to admit that he banned a book from his library at Mansfield University in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. But he isn’t an unapologetic censor — he did it to teach his community a lesson about “the…
SDCC Auction Update: TFAW Delivers for CBLDF
The crew at Things From Another World have been hard at work gathering artwork for CBLDF’s annual San Diego Comic-Con auction. Over the last several years, TFAW has helped raise more than $100,000 for CBLDF’s important First Amendment work, and…