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 those that…
She Changed Comics: Modern Age and Manga
Happy Women’s History Month! All through March, we’ll be celebrating women who changed free expression in comics. Check back here every week for biographical snippets on female creators who have pushed the boundaries of the format and/or seen their work…
Police Demand Removal of Denver Student’s Art
Police associations and others successfully demanded the removal of a Denver 10th-grader’s artwork from a public building this week. The drawing shows a police officer in a Ku Klux Klan hood aiming a gun at an…
Two Indian Men Arrested For Sharing Satirical Image
Ohio Middle School Student Suspended for Death Note Cosplay Prop
An Ohio middle school student’s Death Note cosplay was a little too authentic for school officials, who recently suspended her for three days after a teacher found her prop “death list”…
CBLDF Heads to L.A. for WonderCon This Weekend!
Convention season is officially in full swing, and this weekend, CBLDF is headed to Los Angeles for WonderCon 2016! You’ll find us in the Los Angeles Convention Center at booth 1617 with the debut of the CBLDF-exclusive Batman #50 variant…
UN Committee Urges Japan to Ban Sexual Violence in Fiction
Just a few months after a UN envoy recommended that Japan ban certain types of manga and anime to somehow protect real children from abuse, a separate UN committee has…
Now in the Rewards Zone: Nameless Signed Bookplate Edition – Extremely Limited!
Looking for an extremely limited goodie for your personal collection or for a gift? CBLDF has one for you! Out now, we have a signed and numbered edition of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Nameless, featuring a gorgeous…
Montana Alternative School “Free the Nipple” Article Sparks District-Wide Controversy
Indian Cartoonist Strikes Back at Facebook and Censorship
Florida Classroom Censorship Bills Gone–For Now
Good news! Two bills in the Florida legislature that would have facilitated challenges to instructional materials were allowed to die at the end of the legislative session…
Support CBLDF At C2E2!
This weekend the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is excited to arrive in the City of Broad Shoulders, to exhibit at C2E2! We will be in booth 539, with a ton of great stuff new for 2016, including new CBLDF 2016…
Government Forces Firing of Kenya’s Top Cartoonist
After decades of doing work for Kenya’s largest newspaper, the Daily Nation, the celebrated and most syndicated cartoonist in East and Central Africa Godfrey Mwampembwa (better known as Gado) has been fired due to suspected political pressure from the Kenyan…
Swastikas Removed From High School Production of The Producers
She Changed Comics: Alternative & Modern Age
Happy Women’s History Month! All through March, we’ll be celebrating women who changed free expression in comics. Check back here every week for biographical snippets on female creators who have pushed the boundaries of the format and/or seen their work…