The Parkway Local School District in northwest Ohio last week formed a committee to consider a challenge to the collaborative memoir The Freedom Writers Diary after the father of a high school freshman asked that it be banned from classrooms.…
CBLDF Retail Member Drive Ends Today: Join for Exclusive Variant Covers!
Every year, Diamond Comic Distributors runs a CBLDF membership drive through Previews. During this drive, CBLDF offers special premiums — including gorgeous variant covers for some of the hottest first issues — exclusively for Retailer Members. FOC is here: Diamond’s CBLDF retailer membership drive ends today!
EXCLUSIVE: Comics Creators Talk Star Wars with CBLDF!
Last week, Humble Bundle and Dark Horse Comics launched the Humble Star Wars Comics Bundle to benefit CBLDF. We reached out to some of the creators behind theses classic comics and asked three simple questions about Star Wars and free…
Using Graphic Novels in Education: I Kill Giants
I Kill Giants, by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura, won the IGN Best of 2008, was voted one of the 10 Best Comics of 2009 by New York magazine’s Dan Kois; was a YALSA (Young Adult Library Association) 2010…
ALA Objects to Proposed Flagging of Books from Banned/Challenged Lists
Amidst the can of worms opened up when the Dallas-area Highland Park Independent School District recently suspended and then reinstated seven books on approved reading lists, it is important not to overlook one particularly alarming practice. Currently the district is…
THE HORROR: True Stories of Comics Code Censorship Recounted at NYCC
The Comics Code — the “guidelines” that resulted from United States Senate hearings that took place during the height of the Golden Age of comics and that are credited with the first major downfall of the comic book industry —…