Last week, reporters and social media advocates showed up en masse to help #StudentsBeHeard by spreading the word about CBLDF’s powerful new students’ rights resource created with National Coalition Against Censorship by cartoonist Kai Texel. From thousands of supportive posts,…
Censorship Soars Amid China’s Repeal of Presidential Term Limits
Following the announcement that China’s National People Congress, near unanimously approved a constitutional amendment that will allow President Xi Jinping to stay in office for more than the previously allowed two terms, popular social media channels in China began to…
New Banksy Appeals for Artist’s Freedom
Well known street artist Banksy, in collaboration with John Tsombikos, put up a mural in the Bowery to bring attention to the unjust imprisonment of Zehra Doğan, a Turkish artist and journalist, who was sentenced to nearly three years in…
Pre-Order X-Men: Grand Design, Signed & Sketched by Ed Piskor to Benefit CBLDF!
CBLDF is excited to offer our donors stunning sketched copies of Eisner award-winning creator Ed Piskor‘s newest project, X-Men: Grand Design! This beautiful softcover collects both issues of the series, reproduced in the same oversized format as the best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree collections, and each book is signed…
Colombian Cartoonist Sued Over Political Pig
Cèsar Gonzàlez, a political cartoonist who goes by “Matador”, and El Tiempo, a newspaper in Colombia, are being sued by Attorney Josè Reyes Villamizar for a cartoon depicting presidential candidate Ivàn Duque as a pig. Villamizar alleges the cartoon infringes…
CBLDF DEFENDER Vol. 3 #1 Now Available!

CBLDF Defender comes to you from the frontlines of censorship! In the first issue of 2018, CBLDF talks to Eisner winning colorist and advocate Jordie Bellaire (Redlands, Pretty Deadly, Injection) and Japanese mangaka Takeshi Nogami (Girls und Panzer)! CBLDF Defender Vol. 3 #1 features cover by Declan Shalvey…