To celebrate its 30th anniversary of protecting the First Amendment rights of the comics community, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) and Heritage Auctions are offering 11 important works at auction from the 1987 “A Benefit Portfolio in Defense of the First Amendment” that led to the…
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CBLDF is committed to supporting the comics community. Fill out our form to request assistance or report censorship today!
WA Early Achievers Program Raises Censorship Concerns
Broad language used in a Washington State Early Achievers program that singles out specifically “fables, fairy tales, and nature/science books” has raised concerns about censorship in daycares across the state. Part of the Early Start Act, which was signed into law…
Laurie Stone Responds to Censorship
On October 9, author Laurie Stone was supposed to read an excerpt from her new book Life as an Animal for Columbia University’s student-run WKCR radio. But when the station demanded she excise material from the reading, she declined, leading…
Remembering Lyn Chevli, A Woman Who Truly Changed Comics
Comics legend Lyn Chevli has passed away. Co-founder of Nanny Goat Productions, along with legend in her own right Joyce Farmer, Chevli is credited as the co-publisher of some of the most important feminist works of the underground comix era.…
A 1950s Critic’s Nuanced Take on E.C. Comics and Juvenile Readership
Looking back on the anti-comics crusade of the 1950s, it is perhaps too easy to fall back on stereotypes: dull, repressed suburbanites trying to force their children to conform and read only what they considered to be “quality literature.” But…
She Changed Comics Now Available to Benefit CBLDF!
She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics is now available to order through CBLDF! This book began as a CBLDF Kickstarter project, and because of its success, we are now able to share it with all…