Last week, South Carolina state senator Brad Hutto led an hours-long filibuster to prevent punitive budget cuts against two colleges that had incorporated LGBT-themed books into elective reading programs. Hutto has hinted a compromise is in the works…
BREAKING: Tennessee School Board Restores The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Just a few days ago, the Wilson County School Board in Tennessee voted 3-1 to removed Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time from the school system’s approved reading list over…
CBLDF Celebrates Free Comic Book Day Acclaim with Fresh New Premiums
CBLDF is hot off Free Comic Book Day with a slew of great reviews for our FCBD releases, Help the CBLDF Defend Comics and Raising a Reader: How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your…
Tennessee School Board Bans The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
It’s not often that one word garners a book challenge, but in Wilson County, Tennessee, it appears all you need is the F-bomb to get a book banned. Earlier this week, the Wilson County School…
Writers Speak Out Loud as SC Senate Continues Debate Over Punitive Budget Cuts
As the debate rages on in South Carolina over a proposal that punitively cuts the budgets of two colleges that had incorporated LGBT-themed books — including Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home — into elective reading programs rages, writers are…
IRONY ALERT: Would-be Censor Arrested at School Board Meeting, Claims Violation of His First Amendment Rights
At a meeting this past Monday, the school board in Gilford, New Hampshire addressed what was expected to be a routine complaint from parent William Baer about the content of a book that was assigned in his daughter’s high school…
Comics Unmasked Opens at British Library
The monumental British Library comics exhibit that we told you about back in January is open at last! Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK runs through August 19, featuring over 200 works by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mark…
CBLDF Heads To TCAF With New Jeff Smith Print!
This weekend, the CBLDF will be exhibiting in Canada for the first time at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, where we’ll be offering a brand new print by Jeff Smith! You…
Three More Comic Book Volumes Added To Humble Image Comics Bundle!
Last week, Humble Bundle teamed up with mega-publisher Image Comics to launch the Humble Image Comics Bundle, offering up digital editions of New York Times bestselling, Eisner award-winning comic books starting at as little as…
CBLDF Seeks Development Assistant
Love comics? Want to make a difference? Come work at CBLDF! We are currently seeking a part-time Development Assistant in our New York office to aid us in procuring and promoting the premiums we use to raise money to perform…
CBLDF Comics Code Variant Cover Madness!
The CBLDF office staff is back from a multi-show stint on the road, and we have returned with comics. But not just any comics. Namely, comics with exclusive, awesome, variant covers, just for YOU, the esteemed CBLDF donor! Many of…
Look for CBLDF on Free Comic Book Day!
Since 2002, Free Comic Book Day has been the biggest event in the comic book year. This year, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is celebrating FCBD with not one, but TWO,…
Punitive Budget Cuts Don’t Fly with South Carolina Senate Finance Committee
Yesterday, the Associate Press reported an update to the proposed punitive budget cuts against two South Carolina Universities. In early March, the South Carolina House of Representatives passed a budget that cut the funding of two…
Spiked Doonesbury Strip Runs in Washington Post After 41 Years
Last week, the Washington Post finally ran a Doonesbury strip that its editors vetoed in 1973. At the Post’s own Comic Riffs blog, columnist Michael Cavna examined the Watergate-era context of the strip, the paper’s rather weak justification for its…
Half Price Books Joins Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as Newest Corporate Member!
Half Price Books, the nation’s largest family-owned new and used bookstore chain, has joined the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) as its newest corporate member. Half Price Books has long been an…