Dynamite Entertainment is excited to announce the debut of its brand new digital comic program featuring DRM-free comics. Launching initially with comics available in PDF file format, the initiative makes a selection of its most popular and celebrated…
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New Challenges Expected for The Giver
With the recent release of the film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s 1993 young adult novel The Giver, free speech groups are bracing for a resurgence of challenges to one of the most frequently targeted books of…
Library Professional and Sequential Tart Founding Member Katherine Keller Joins CBLDF Board of Directors
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is pleased to welcome Katherine Keller as the newest member of the organization’s Board of Directors. Keller joins Larry Marder, President; Milton Griepp, Vice President; Jeff Abraham, Treasurer; Dale Cendali, Secretary;…
On the Border of Fourth Amendment Rights
As evidenced by the Ryan Matheson case, one of the risks we face as comics fans is the search and seizure of electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops when we cross international borders….
Pennsylvania School Board Rescinds Ban of The Handmaid’s Tale
A Pennsylvania school board, which last month voted to ban Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a high school summer reading book, has reversed that decision at its subsequent meeting, the National Coalition Against Censorship…
Don’t Miss CBLDF At Comica!
CBLDF’s Executive Director Charles Brownstein is in London this week to participate in the Comica Festival at the British Library. CBLDF will be set up with a table at the Comica Comiket, a one day marketplace featuring the…
Gear Up for Sin City with Frank Miller Merch!
Frank Miller has been a long-time supporter of the CBLDF, serving on the Board of Directors for many years and currently sitting on our Advisory Board. In anticipation of the theatrical release of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,…
Striking A Balance Between Intellectual Property Rights and Free Speech
With new social media and file sharing websites popping up almost every day, there is an ever-increasing concern with copyright and trademark infringement. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was introduced in order to help make it easier for these new…
Quantum & Woody Art Jam Auction Ends Today!
This past June, worlds collided in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a dazzling variety of Quantum & Woody artists descended on Heroes Con, found our booth, and began drawing on a blank pad of paper. Today is your last chance to…
More BOOM! For Your Buck In Latest Humble Bundle Update
Award-winning comic book and graphic novel publisher BOOM! Studios is proud to announce the addition of four more titles to the Humble BOOM! Bundle, which enters its second week today. The initiative allows fans to pay what…
Using Graphic Novels in Education: Amelia Rules!
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…
RIP Dominic Postiglione
It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Dominic Postiglione, a partner at The Source Comics & Games serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN area, and a driving force behind the Midwest Comic Book Association, who annually host FallCon and SpringCon.…
In Defense of Smoking Scarecrows
Last week, we reported on the controversy that erupted over Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Scarecrows’ Wedding, which depicts a smoking scarecrow. Donaldson and Scheffler are also the creative force behind The Gruffalo,…
Amazing THE SANDMAN OMNIBUS SILVER EDITION Now Available from CBLDF!
New to the CBLDF Donation Center, we have a gorgeous donation from our friends at DC Entertainment: The Sandman Omnibus Silver Edition. Limited to 500 copies, all numbered, and signed by author (and longtime CBLDF Board Member)…
Brunswick County Superintendent Stands Behind Part-Time Indian
This week, Superintendent Edward Pruden released a letter that he sent to Frances Wood, the woman who is leading a campaign against Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in Brunswick County, North Carolina….