This weekend, comics fans will flock to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center to celebrate comics at the New Jersey Comic Expo! CBLDF can’t make it, but Dynamite Entertainment is going to extra mile for the Fund by asking…
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VICTORY in NJ: Two Books to Remain on High School Reading List
A review committee in Rumson, New Jersey found this week that Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden and Bernard MacLaverty’s novel Cal are appropriate for upper-level high school students and thus should remain on the reading list at Rumson-Fair…
CBLDF Signs on to Protest Ohio Ban of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
For the second time in two months, CBLDF yesterday joined with other organizational members of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Kids’ Right to Read Project in sending a letter of protest to a school district that banned Jonathan Safran Foer’s…
Amityville Graphic Novel Challenged in North Carolina School
A parent in Knightdale, North Carolina is calling for the removal of Amityville: Jr. Graphic Ghost Stories from all Wake County schools after her first grade son checked the book out of the Lake Myra Elementary School library earlier this week.…
Comics Collector Donates Rare “Canadian Whites” to University
From Nelvana of the Northern Lights, a female crime-buster who predates Wonder Woman, to a Nazi-fighting man from the sea called Iron Man, Canada’s comics history is rich, vibrant, and has a flavor wholly its own. Former award-winning math professor…
Another Cartoonist Arrested in Iran
Iranian authorities arrested another cartoonist this week, allegedly to make him serve out a previous sentence imposed two years ago because the state “had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had,” according to his lawyer. Hadi Heidari previously…