Following up on an announcement made last week, SPX has announced the launch of a GoFundMe campaign to support eleven members of the independent comics community fighting a defamation case. The full announcement follows: Last month, eleven members of the independent…
CBLDF is committed to supporting the comics community. Fill out our form to request assistance or report censorship today!
CBLDF is committed to supporting the comics community. Fill out our form to request assistance or report censorship today!
Celebrate Banned Books Week At Your Library with Image Comics’ Library Livestreams
PORTLAND, OR, 09/13/2018 — Image Comics is celebrating Banned Books Week with Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table of the American Library Association by producing a week of Library Livestreams featuring creators Nick…
Banned Spotlight on ALA’s Top 10 Challenged Books
BannedBooksWeek.org is doing a series of articles spotlighting the ALA’s Top Ten Challenged Books of 2017 to lead up to this year’s Banned Books Week, September 23 – 29. In 2017, two comic books – Drama and Sex is a Funny…
Banned Together Censorship Cabarets During Banned Books Week
Theater lovers can take part in the annual Banned Books Week activities this year by attending “censorship cabarets” comprised of songs and scenes from plays that have been challenged or banned in America. The shows, known as Banned Together were…
Egyptian Photojournalist Convicted of Murder for Covering Protests in 2013
On September 8th, 2018, photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan, was convicted for murder and membership in a terrorist organization after his arrest in August 2013 while “documenting the government’s violent dispersal of protesters at Rab’a Al Adweya…
Gear Up for Banned Books Week With New Handbooks, T-Shirts, Signed GNs, & More!
This week CBLDF is offering a ton of great print resources and gear for Banned Books Week! Donate today to grab a bundle of our brand-new resource, Read Banned Comics; “I Read Banned Comics” t-shirts; signed graphic novels all about comics; a…