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Inspire kids to become lifelong readers with Panel Power, a CBLDF resource that provides an introduction to comics and background on why they’re good for kids! You can find the issue at comic book stores across the nation and below! You can also…
For the third time in four years, Raina Telgemeier’s Drama was considered too hot for a Texas school, according to the state ACLU chapter’s latest banned books report…
Advocacy groups in Utah settled a discrimination lawsuit against the state last week, after both the legislature and the statewide board of education repealed rules that banned “advocacy of…
In response to a draconian censorship directive recently issued by the superintendent of schools in Dixie County, Florida, CBLDF this week joined with other member organizations of the Kids’ Right to Read Project in defending vast…
The Wichita, Kansas, school system has decided against including an award-winning book about a transgender 4th grader in all district libraries. The Wichita school district decided not to buy copies of Alex Gino’s George for district libraries, …
An exhibition of cartoons by Greek artists to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the European Union was marred last month by the rejection of almost half the works that were to hang in a European Parliament building, on grounds that…
This week CBLDF is rewarding your donations with Batman graphic novels, including Batman: The Dark Knight Saga hardcover, signed by Frank Miller; Batman: Year One hardcover, signed by David Mazzucchelli; Batman: Year 100 hardcover, signed by Paul Pope; Batman Noir: Black Mirror hardcover, signed by Jock; Batman: Death and the Maidens hardcover, signed by Klaus Janson and Greg…
CBLDF is ready to take on the Big Apple during New York Comic Con with an exclusive variant cover from Dynamite, panels, and signed premiums at booth #2258! Exclusives CBLDF has teamed up with Dynamite Entertainment for…
Zunar, the Malaysian cartoonist charged with nine counts of sedition which could net him up to 43 years in prison, got some much-needed international support last month…
School district officials in Wyomissing, PA decided last week to keep The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood as an option on a summer reading list for…
Political cartoonist and graphic novelist Ramón Esono Ebalé, who was arrested September 16 in his native country of Equatorial Guinea, remains detained without charge…
Banned Books Week 2017 is wrapping up, and this year the celebration of free expression seems more relevant than ever. In light of recent public debates over speech and counterspeech, the mechanisms of protest,…
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and award-winning comics publisher Valiant Entertainment are joining forces to offer an exclusive fan experience that benefits CBLDF’s important work in protecting the First Amendment and the freedom to read comics. …
We kicked off this Banned Books Week with challenges to two classics, and we’ll be wrapping up the week with news of a ban of another book: Lauren Myracle’s l8r, g8r. The book is being challenged…
Administrators of a public library in Foxborough, Massachusetts allowed most of an exhibit on press freedom to return to display last week after previously ordering its removal, but two posters including the one at right…