In a verdict certain to have a chilling effect on journalism in Turkey, political cartoonist Musa Kart and 13 of his fellow staffers were sentenced to jail this week. The defendants all worked for Cumhuriyet, a Turkish newspaper critical of…
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Join CBLDF at Powell’s for Talk about Kids Comics
Join CBLDF Deputy Director, Alex Cox, this Saturday, April 28th at 2 pm, as he leads a discussion at Powell’s Bookshop in Portland with four children’s graphic novelists and illustrators. The creators include Graham Annable with Peter and Ernesto: A Tale…
Celebrate the 2018 Eisner Nominees with GNs Signed by Emil Ferris, Ed Piskor, Tillie Walden, & More!
This year’s Eisner Nominations were just announced, and CBLDF is celebrating by offering our donors signed copies of these fantastic graphic novels, including My Favorite Thing is Monsters signed by Emil Ferris; X-Men: Grand Design signed by Ed Piskor; Spinning signed by Tillie Walden; plus a slew of excellent…
CBLDF Wins Intellectual Freedom Champion Award — With Audio!
“In the intellectual freedom community, our job is to change the world one mind at a time.” – Charles Brownstein of CBLDF At the 2018 Oregon Library Association annual conference in Eugene, OR, on April 20, 2018, the Intellectual Freedom…
Egyptian Author Fined for Sexually Explicit Excerpt
Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was fined LE 20,000 following his third trial for “harming public morality” by republishing an excerpt from his experimental book Using Life (also known as Use of Life) in 2014. Naji was initially acquitted of these…
Comic & Graphic Novel ALA Group Needs Your Help!
Back in December, it was announced that comic books and the librarians who love them will soon have more support from the creation of a Graphic Novels & Comics in Libraries Round Table. The current incarnation of the group, Graphic…