Earlier this year, a challenge filed against Gender Queer, Fun Home, and Blankets resulted in their removal from the Radnor Township School District high school library in southeast Pennsylvania. Opponents of these graphic novels also filed a police report calling…
Another week, another challenge to Raina Telgemeier’s Drama, as a public library in Florida, following an official state book removal list, is reclassifying the book as “Adult,” not for minors. Reclassifying might sound better than an outright ban, but it’s…
This published and then withdrawn digital poster from ICE illustrates why monitoring border policy is essential. It also highlights why understanding the publications exemption for new reciprocal tariffs is so important, as border agents have the authority to seize goods…
We’ll return to where things stand with the financial aspect of comics-related tariffs in my next post, but for this I want to respond to a question we’ve received several times in recent weeks: could we see a revival of…
In my previous post, I noted an aspect of Trump’s tariffs that has received little to no media attention: the evident exemption for books and other publications, including graphic novels, comics, and manga. Today we’ll take a more detailed look…
The imposition of draconian reciprocal tariffs has justifiably generated serious concern over their potential impact on comic periodicals, graphic novels, manga, and comics-adjacent merchandise, such as apparel, cosmetics, action figures, statues, and games. What does the President’s April 2nd Executive…