On Giving Tuesday, December 3, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the PEN American Center and present a live Mashable/Google+ Hangout On Air with acclaimed graphic novelists Jeff Smith and Gene Luen Yang! CBLDF Board Member Jeff Smith is the…
Art Spiegelman Gets In the Spirit of Giving!
Legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman is supporting CBLDF this holiday season by personalizing his graphic novels Maus and the brand new retrospective Co-Mix for CBLDF donors as part of our Spirit of Giving holiday fundraiser! Spiegelman joins Alan Moore and comics greats…
Cartoonist Keeps Drawing Despite Fundamentalist Threats
The last time we featured Egyptian political cartoonist Doaa Eladl here, she was facing a Muslim Brotherhood-backed lawsuit that alleged one of her cartoons was blasphemous. In the tumultuous months since then, the lawsuit evaporated along with Mohamed Morsi’s presidency…
CBLDF Co-Signs Letter Defending The House of Spirits
This week, a review committee in North Carolina will decide the fate of Isabel Allende’s The House of Spirits after parents in the district appealed an earlier decision that upheld the book’s use in classrooms. CBLDF has signed a letter…
CBLDF Joins Amicus Brief Opposed to Arizona Law that Led to Ban of Mexican American Studies Books
The students and teachers of Tucson’s now defunct Mexican American Studies program are fighting back by bringing suit against Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal. In an effort to protect educators and students’ rights to access comic books by…
Now in the Rewards Zone: Warren Ellis Supports CBLDF with Signed Books!
Superstar writer Warren Ellis was kind enough to sign a batch of his best books for the CBLDF on a recent visit to New York, and they’re now available in the Rewards Zone! In exchange for a donation, you can…