Students at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona are looking for answers after Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner was abruptly pulled from the curriculum district-wide, just as Honors English 10 classes were to start reading it. Higley Unified School…
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Reading Without Walls: A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang
This month, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang officially ushers in the permanent annual version of his Reading Without Walls challenge. Recently Yang sat down with CBLDF Editorial Director Betsy Gomez to talk about the challenge and the importance…
She Changed Comics: Women in the Underground
With the rise of the raucous, raunchy, male-dominated Underground Comix scene of the 1960s and ’70s — itself a backlash against the sanitized books that passed Comics Code Authority muster — came another backlash of sorts, from women galvanized by…
She Changed Comics: Teaching Resources Now Available!
Thanks to your overwhelming support, we didn’t just fund She Changed Comics, our resource about the women who changed free expression in comics — we also funded teaching guides for higher education, high school, and middle school. Those guides are…
Alison Bechdel Named Vermont Cartoonist Laureate
Alison Bechdel, creator of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For, will be honored as Vermont’s new Cartoonist Laureate at a ceremony in the state house next month, followed by a presentation of laurels at the Center for Cartoon…
Join CBLDF for MoCCA Fest This Weekend!
This weekend finds CBLDF on both coasts — WonderCon in Anaheim and the one and only MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City! During MoCCA Fest, you’ll find us at booth G236-237, where we’ll host Cliff Chiang for signings each day…