All year round, CBLDF works hard to protect the right to read. If you’re doing your charitable giving for the year over this holiday weekend, we ask you to please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us continue to…
Humble Celebrates 10 Years of BOOM! with an EVEN MORE Massive Bundle to Benefit CBLDF!
For the past ten years, BOOM! has assembled quite the portfolio of comics, so as a way of commemorating their arrival into the double digits, Humble has assembled their digital comics into a bundle! And now,…
Graphic Novelist Leila Abdelrazaq Detained, Questioned by Border Patrol Over Sketchbook
Graphic novelist Leila Abdelrazaq, who recently won critical praise for her book Baddawi, was detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona for three hours last week after they spotted…
Will Eisner and the Mysterious Origin of the Graphic Novel
Chicago School Librarian’s Job Saved by Student Protest, Anonymous Donation
Score another win for student activists in Chicago Public Schools, who last week helped to avert the dismissal of their beloved librarian due to budget cuts. Sara Sayigh, librarian at the South Side’s DuSable Campus, had been slated to lose…
Lebanese Editors Use Government Censorship to Make More Comics
Charlie Hebdo Editor’s Posthumous Free Expression Manifesto Out Next Month
Nearly a year after the attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo which killed 12 people including five cartoonists, a manifesto on freedom of expression that editor Stéphane Charbonnier (widely known as Charb) completed shortly before his death will…
Administrators Shut Down Virginia Schools After Muslim Indoctrination Claim
Bid on Neil Gaiman Rarities to Benefit CBLDF!
It’s no secret that Neil Gaiman is one of the biggest defenders of the freedom to read, and he’s been an invaluable supporter of CBLDF’s mission to defend free speech. This week, CBLDF is delighted to auction a collection of…
Author’s Conspiracy Theory Seminar Cancelled By Egyptian Government
CBLDF Joins Coalition in Defending The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
No One Expects the British Censors: How Monty Python Laughed in the Face of Censorship
LAST DAY FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY — Get in the Spirit of Giving with Signed Graphic Novels!
CBLDF has the best holiday gifts for the fan in your life in our Spirit of Giving holiday fundraiser! But you need to act now — today is the last day to get domestic delivery for Christmas! You can get…
CBLDF Board Member Reginald Hudlin Receives Critics Association’s Excellence Award
CBLDF board member and entertainment industry trailblazer Reginald Hudlin will be the first-ever recipient of the African-American Film Critics Association’s “Salute to Excellence Award” at the group’s upcoming awards ceremony in February. Hudlin is…
Michigan Parents Worry Picture Book Will Indoctrinate Students to Islam
Some parents in Eau Claire, Michigan, are accusing the local school district of preaching Islam to students via the picture book Nasreen’s Secret School, which was also challenged earlier this year in Florida….