This Saturday, May 4th, people will gather at comic book shops around the world to celebrate Free Comic Book Day! Don’t forget to pick up CBLDF’s Defend Comics, with cover art by Derek Charm! This year’s comic has stories the…
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#FreeMusaKart on World Press Freedom Day
CBLDF’s partner organization in protecting free expression for comics artists, Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) is greatly saddened to report that the internationally acclaimed cartoonist Musa Kart is again a prisoner this World Press Freedom Day. In November 2016 Musa Kart…
Get Personalized Comics from Chew’s John Layman!
John Layman, the creative mastermind behind the hit series Chew & Outer Darkness is showing his support for CBLDF by personalizing limited edition art bookplates for CBLDF Supporters to benefit our First Amendment work! For a limited time only, we’re offering the chance to have John Layman inscribe one of his great…
Celebrate 100 Years of Children’s Literacy with Comics
2019 marks the Centennial Children’s Book Week, beginning today April 27th and Running through May 5. This year’s theme – Read Now. Read Forever. – draws into focus the past, present, and crucial future of children’s literature. Celebrations can be found…
Cartoonist Musa Kart in Prison Unjustly, Again
Almost exactly one year after award-winning editorial cartoonist was released from prison to await appeal, he has turned himself in to serve a sentence for “supporting terrorism” with his colleagues from the Turkish paper Cumhuriyet. The official charge leveled against…
Schanes & Schanes Art Portfolio Archives Auction To Benefit CBLDF
CBLDF is proud to offer our donors the chance to get file copies of rare art portfolios from the collection of industry legend Bill Schanes! Schanes is the co-founder of Pacific Comics, the groundbreaking west coast independent comics publisher. These portfolios…
CBLDF Defends Students’ Right to Read in NJ!
Mere weeks after the graphic novel Fun Home was restored in a New Jersey school district, the policy (2530) that ushered in that victory was rewritten to drastically change the power for future decisions and remove all language in support of free…
Support The CBLDF With American Gods Volume 2: My Ainsel Signed By Neil Gaiman!
This week CBLDF is proud to celebrate the release of Neil Gaiman’s second American Gods Graphic Novel Installment, American Gods Volume 2: My Ainsel! Donors can pick up a signed hardcover of American Gods Volume 2: My Ainsel or American Gods Volume…
Myanmar Rejects Appeal for Imprisoned Journalists
The Supreme Court of Myanmar has denied the appeal of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the Reuters journalists currently serving seven year sentences after a police set-up. The court’s decision comes on the heals of Lone and Soe Oo…
U.S. Identified as “Problematic” for Journalists
The 2019 World Press Freedom Index has been released and continues the narrative of previous years as animosity towards the press erodes into hostility and violence, fostering an environment of fear for journalists around the globe. The United States has…