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Bonil: “The Role of a Cartoonist Is to Be a Dissident”

by Caitlin McCabe • April 7, 2015

Ecuadorian cartoonist Bonil — a frequent target of governmental censors and recently threatened by ISIS — spoke with free speech advocacy group and watchdog organization Freedom House about the dire state of free expression in his home country. When Rafael…

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Community, Education, Headline, Homepage, News Blog

Retailers: TODAY is FOC for CBLDF’s Vital Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!

by Betsy Gomez • April 6, 2015

With Free Comic Book Day coming up, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is offering a proven resource to help you reach out to your community and create new repeat customers! Stock up now on bundles of Raising a Reader! How…

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Education, Headline, Homepage, News Blog

Minnesota Proposes Classroom Censorship Bills

by Maren Williams • April 6, 2015

Three similar bills recently introduced in the Minnesota legislature would require school districts to notify parents or guardians every time a fellow parent, guardian, or an adult student deems instructional material such as books or movies to be “sexually explicit…

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Education, Homepage, News Blog

Author Responds to Connecticut Ban of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Betsy Gomez • April 3, 2015
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A Connecticut Superintendent is standing behind his ban of Stephen Chobsky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower despite a review committee’s recommendation otherwise and opposition from the community and free speech advocates, including CBLDF. Chbosky himself has now responded to…

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Fun Home Selected as Duke University’s Core Summer Reading Book

by Caitlin McCabe • April 3, 2015

One of the comic industry’s most debated books, Fun Home, has been selected by Duke University as its Class of 2019 Common Experience summer reading book. An autobiographical memoir, writer and artist Alison Bechdel tells her story of her distant…

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Wisconsin Cartoonist Sits Down With Elementary School to Talk About Freedom of Speech

by Caitlin McCabe • April 3, 2015

The editorial cartoonist Phil Hands, who draws for the Wisconsin State Journal, took it upon himself recently to visit a local Madison, Wisconsin, elementary school to teach about the importance of freedom of speech, especially in light of the violent…

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