Following the announcement that China’s National People Congress, near unanimously approved a constitutional amendment that will allow President Xi Jinping to stay in office for more than the previously allowed two terms, popular social media…
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New Banksy Appeals for Artist’s Freedom
Well known street artist Banksy, in collaboration with John Tsombikos, put up a mural in the Bowery to bring attention to the unjust imprisonment of Zehra Doğan, a Turkish artist and journalist, who…
Pre-Order X-Men: Grand Design, Signed & Sketched by Ed Piskor to Benefit CBLDF!
CBLDF is excited to offer our donors stunning sketched copies of Eisner award-winning creator Ed Piskor‘s newest project, X-Men: Grand Design! This beautiful softcover collects both issues of the series, reproduced in the same oversized format as the best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree collections, and each book is signed…
Colombian Cartoonist Sued Over Political Pig
Cèsar Gonzàlez, a political cartoonist who goes by “Matador”, and El Tiempo, a newspaper in Colombia, are being sued by Attorney Josè Reyes Villamizar for a cartoon depicting presidential candidate Ivàn Duque as a pig. Villamizar alleges the cartoon infringes…
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CBLDF DEFENDER Vol. 3 #1 Now Available!
CBLDF Defender comes to you from the frontlines of censorship! In the first issue of 2018, CBLDF talks to Eisner winning colorist and advocate Jordie Bellaire (Redlands, Pretty Deadly, Injection) and Japanese mangaka Takeshi Nogami (Girls und Panzer)! CBLDF…
Athens Bookshop Fights Censorship of LGBTQIA Book
Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia, ended a book fair early when a school’s administrator demanded they pull Richard Peck’s The Best Man off the sales floor, despite previously having agreed it could be displayed and sold….
Be Heard! A Comic For Student Rights From CBLDF & NCAC
As millions of American students assert their First Amendment rights in protests across the country, advocacy groups Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and
Classic Marvel GNs Signed by Hudlin, Miller, & Claremont Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with character-defining Marvel collections signed by their creators, including Black Panther by Hudlin TP Volumes One, Two, and Three, all signed by Reginald Hudlin; Daredevil by Miller & Janson Omnibus and Omnibus Companion, signed by Frank Miller; Elektra Omnibus HC, signed by Frank Miller…
Petition Against Part-Time Indian In Michigan
Parents of high school students in Midland, Michigan have opted to pass around a petition requesting the school ban Alexie Sherman’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, despite administrators clear instructions that they will…
Ramòn Esono Ebalè Released from False Imprisonment
After being falsely imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea for five months and nineteen days, political cartoonist Ramòn Esono Ebalè was finally released on March 7th. It had been just over a week since the one day trial of Ebalè, where the…
CBLDF Joins Letter Urging Cody, WY to Reconsider Censorship
Cody school district recently banned Tanya Stone’s A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl despite a previous vote to retain it, 7 – 2, by the official KEC committee convened to review the YA book. CBLDF has joined…
Looking for Alaska Pulled from School Libraries
John Greene’s Printz Award-Winning Looking for Alaska has been pulled from West Ada School District middle school libraries in Idaho without following the formal reconsideration guidelines. The book had been only been available in the library and was not…
CBLDF Needs Your Help! Do You Read, Sell, or Shelve Comics?
Ensuring the freedom to read starts with ensuring the best access to books possible. With that in mind Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has partnered with graduate students at University of Washington iSchool to figure…
GNs Signed by Robert Kirkman & Rick Remender Benefit CBLDF!
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with graphic novels signed by comics icons Robert Kirkman and Rick Remender! We’re offering donors the chance to pick-up The Walking Dead Volume One HC, The Walking Dead: Here’s Negan HC, The Walking Dead Volume One Omnibus HC, Invincible Ultimate…
Join CBLDF at ECCC, Starting Today! Booth #2116
Make CBLDF your first stop today at Emerald City Comic Con! We’re at Booth #2116 so come by and say hi! While you’re here, make sure to check out our killer selection of CBLDF merch and signed graphic novels. Every…