CBLDF and other members of Florida Education Defenders have written to Superintendent Gregory Adkins of Lee County School District to ask him to restore City of Thieves to the curriculum and respect the First Amendment rights of the students in…
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Exclusive Umbrella Academy and LumberJanes for CBLDF Retail Members!
For over twenty-five years, the COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND has tirelessly advocated for the comics industry and art form, providing legal assistance and advice, educational programming, and resources for libraries and schools. Since the earliest days of the CBLDF,…
Victory in Utah for EBSCO!
News just broke on Twitter that The Utah Education Network has voted to restore access to EBSCO for K-12 students of the state. According to a local news report at the beginning of October, the EBSCO shut down stemmed…
Get Your Classroom Ready for Halloween with The Misadventures of Salem Hyde
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…
Get Ready for Halloween with Hair-Raising Reads Signed by Neil Gaiman, Robert Kirkman, & Many More!
This week you can support CBLDF and get in the Halloween spirit with signed graphic novels featuring all sorts of grizzly ghouls and creepy creatures! Donate today to grab titles including Infidel TP, signed by Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, & Josè Villarrubia; The…
Valiant and Groupees Announce the Biggest-Ever VALIANT UNIVERSE Digital Bundle
Valiant Entertainment is excited to announce that it has joined forces with Groupees, a unique online and mobile platform for distributing media with real-time social features, for the launch of a brand new, DRM-free, pay-what-you-want digital bundle of Valiant comics – the…
City of Thieves Pulled from Florida High School
City of Thieves by David Benioff was banned from a Lee County High School in Fort Myers, Florida after a parent complained of the book being “vulgar”. The book had been randomly assigned to approximately 30 students, and the parents…
Fringe Group Sues EBSCO and Colorado Library Consortium Alleging Both are Pornography Pushers
On October 10th, a lawsuit was filed against EBSCO Industries Inc., a media aggregator database service, and Colorado Library Consortium, a non-profit benefitting Colorado libraries through the sharing of services and by offering continuing education for library staff. The lawsuit…
Putting Comics in Libraries, Classrooms, and Young Readers’ Hands
There’s a passionate blog post, with a phenomenal list of resources attached to it, that details Why Graphic Novels Belong in All of Our Libraries. The author, Pernille Ripp, talks about the struggle that many parents, teachers, and librarians will…
Batman GNs Signed by Tim Sale, Bruce Timm, Tom King, & More Benefit CBLDF!
This week you can support CBLDF and get some great signed graphic novels featuring everyone’s favorite Caped Crusader! Grab a copy of Batman: The Long Halloween TP, signed by Tim Sale; Batman Adventures: Mad Love HC, signed by Bruce Timm; Batman: Rebirth Vol 1 HC, signed by Tom King; Batman: Dark…