Australian supermarket chain Aldi has removed Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes from its shelves. Revolting Rhymes, first published in 1982,is Dahl’s collection of poems, reimagining traditional fables through the author’s signature deranged humor. One of the…
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Alison Bechdel Wins MacArthur “Genius Grant”
Fun Home creator Alison Bechdel received some well-deserved recognition and support for her work yesterday, when it was announced that she is one of the 21 recipients of a 2014 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” In a …
CBLDF’s Banned Books Week Kick-Off Party in Brooklyn!
Celebrate the Freedom to Read with the city’s greatest graphic novelists at CBLDF’s Banned Books Week Kick-Off this Monday, September 22 at 6:00 p.m.! Join us to wind down another successful Brooklyn Book Festival, and to celebrate the opening…
CBLDF’s Banned Books Week Tour!
Banned Books Week launches this Sunday, September 21, and CBLDF has events planned coast to coast all week to celebrate the freedom to read! From New York City to California, CBLDF will spend the week celebrating comics and graphic novels…
Free Posters and Resources for Banned Books Week!
Banned Books Week is coming right up next week, September 21-27, and we have some great free resources for librarians, teachers, retailers, and anyone else who wants to celebrate! First, the posters. That beauty at right featuring characters from banned…
Presenting the Humble Valiant Bundle: A Massive Digital Collection Benefiting CBLDF, Hero Initiative, and Doctors Without Borders
Pay what you want for Valiant’s ultimate digital comic collection of your favorite titles and characters, while supporting charities that make truly heroic differences around the world. Humble Bundle and award-winning comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment are proud…
Friday 9/19 – Brandon Graham in NYC For CBLDF!
This Friday, September 19, Brandon Graham, the acclaimed cartoonist of the highly influential graphic novels King City and Multiple Warheads, and the driving force behind the genre-bending science fiction series Prophet is benefiting CBLDF with a lecture and party in New…
Dynamite Digital Adds Bitcoin Option, 10% Goes to CBLDF!
Dynamite Entertainment is excited to announce the addition of Bitcoin as an accepted form of payment at http://dynamite.com/digital/, the company’s recently-launched digital store for DRM-Free digital comics. The Bitcoin payment system joins existing payment options…
Bill Teoh: From Comics Censor to Comics Retailer
Bill Teoh, the 80-year-old owner of one of the few comic book stores in Singapore, took an unlikely path to that business. Before opening Comics World in 1987, Teoh was a police inspector on the censorship board…
Gilbert Hernandez Signing Friday at Cosmic Comics in Las Vegas!
This Friday at Cosmic Comics in Las Vegas, Gilbert Hernandez and other area creators will be signing and sketching to benefit CBLDF! For a $10 donation, this is your chance to get a signed…
Public Libraries Are for Everyone: A Response to the Illinois Family Institute
Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute thinks that librarians who celebrate Banned Books Week are hypocrites. In an article on the organization’s website last week, she argued that the real banned books…
Retail Orders for CBLDF Liberty Annual 2014 Due TODAY!
Retailers: Today is the last day to place orders for CBLDF Liberty Annual 2014! To get you — and fans of the right to read everywhere — ready for this all-ages event, we’re delighted to share a video with CBLDF…
Absolutely True Diary Restricted in Brunswick County Schools
One North Carolina woman’s months-long crusade against Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian culminated this week with a disappointing compromise: the book will remain in Brunswick County middle school libraries, but will…
Bluest Eye Banned from Classrooms in North Carolina High School
About four months after Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple were challenged as reading assignments for Advanced Placement English at a high school in Wendell, North Carolina, we learned this week…
Using Graphic Novels in Education: Amulet
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…