Banned Books Week, the national celebration of the Freedom to Read is underway! Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a sponsor of Banned Books Week, and we have been joined in the celebration by members of ComicsPRO! The comics retailer…
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Alan Moore, America’s Most Challenged
Alan Moore is a legend of the comic book industry, recognized as one of its best writers. He has won numerous awards for his works, including for his run on Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, and The League…
The Incredible True Story of Joe Shuster’s NIGHTS OF HORROR
In 1938, Superman took flight from the drawing board of a teenage boy named Joe Shuster into the pages of Action Comics. However, by 1954 Joe had fallen on hard times: He was no longer drawing Superman; he had lost…
Virtual Read-Out: KING & KING
Here’s another selection from the Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out, an officially sponsored YouTube channel that compiles videos of people reading their favorite banned and challenged literature. In this one, college student Rachel reads an excerpt from King & King…
The Mayor Who Failed to Censor Comics
A historical milepost article on The Columbus Dispatch website, an Ohio-based periodical, revisits September 28, 1954, when the city’s mayor composed a panel to review the censorship of comics. In assembling the panel, Columbus mayor M.E. Sensenbrenner noted that the FBI…
LGBT Graphic Novels Face Frequent Challenges
Regular CBLDF readers are probably already aware that comics and graphic novels are frequently challenged or banned for content that would pass without comment in an all-text novel. Would-be censors, often clinging to the notion that any book with lots…
Zut Alors! Stockholm Library Briefly Bans Tintin
In the course of one day, a library in Sweden banned and then lifted the ban on Tintin comics. The comic series, by Belgian comic artist Georges Remi, is about the misadventures of a young reporter and his dog and is…
Virtual Read-Out: AND TANGO MAKES THREE
It’s Banned Books Week, and bookstores, libraries, authors, and readers around the country are celebrating by participating in the Virtual Read-Out, an officially sponsored YouTube channel that compiles videos of people reading their favorite banned and challenged literature. Stephanie Hartwell-Mandella,…
SIDESCROLLERS: When One Citizen Takes Away the Rights of Parents
Banned Books Week is underway, and we’re taking the time to examine some of the books that have been challenged and banned in libraries and schools. To kick off the week, let’s take a look at SideScrollers, the most recent…
Support CBLDF At Wizard World Ohio Comic Con!
This weekend come support the CBLDF at the Wizard World Ohio Comic Con! CBLDF’s Columbus based volunteer crew will be at Booth 123 with t-shirts, signed graphic novels, a raffle, and other thank you items for folks supporting the Fund’s…