A war of Letters to the Editor has broken out in the pages of a small Massachusetts newspaper over the content of Mort Walker’s long-running comic Beetle Bailey, with one reader labeling the strip “totally outdated and loaded with unhealthy…
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Chinese Cartoonist Fights from Exile
Seven years ago, dissident cartoonist Badiucao fled his home country of China for Australia. He’s long relied on the internet to share his work. “I felt this deepening of free expression, as everyone began to use the internet in a new way,…
C2E2: Signings with CBLDF!
Thanks to our friends at IDW, CBLDF will host two special signings during C2E2 for the very special benefit anthology, Love is Love, which raised $165,000 to benefit the victims of the Pulse shooting in Orlando. On Friday, April 21, head…
CBLDF Warms Up for C2E2!
We’re only a week away from Chicago’s celebration of all things geeky, C2E2! We’ve lined up an exclusive new t-shirt for the show, signed merch, panels, and much more for comic defenders! We’ll also have exclusive signings at CBLDF booth…
Actor and Columnist Sentenced to Prison for Sharing Cartoon
Turkish actor and columnist Orhan Aydin has received a suspended sentence of 11 months and 20 days prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by sharing a cartoon on social media. Aydin shared a cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff that…
CBLDF Joins Defense of The Kite Runner in Arizona
CBLDF this week joined a coalition of free-speech organizations objecting to the abrupt removal of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner from the curriculum of Higley Unified School District in Gilbert, Arizona. Although students in Honors English 10 have read the…