Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s award-winning graphic novel This One Summer sits at the top of the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books in 2016. Other comics in the top ten are Drama by Raina Telgemeier and Big Hard Sex…
CBLDF Joins Defense of Jacob’s New Dress
CBLDF has joined a Kids’ Right to Read Project-led coalition to protest the removal of Sarah and Ian Hoffman’s Jacob’s New Dress from a first grade anti-bullying program in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina. CBLDF…
Musa Kart Indicted After Lengthy Detention, Could Face 29 Years in Prison
Five months after Turkish political cartoonist Musa Kart was arrested along with several of his colleagues from Cumhuriyet newspaper on suspicion of supporting Kurdish militants and the Gulenist movement, they finally were formally indicted this week. If convicted, Kart…
New Absolute Editions Signed by Frank Miller, Brian K. Vaughan, Scott Snyder, & More!
CBLDF has some great new Absolute Editions available to reward your donations, including Absolute Ronin and Absolute Batman: Year One signed by Frank Miller and/or David Mazzucchelli, Absolute Y: The Last Man signed by Brian K. Vaughan, Absolute Batman: Court of Owls…
Bradbury Biographer Warns of Dystopian Future Without School Librarians
Few would disagree that in the current context of rampant misinformation, students in public schools must be trained to seek out reliable facts and assess sources. Nevertheless, every year more and more…
Mouly & Spiegelman Continue To RESIST at MoCCA!
Françoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman have opened submissions for the second edition of their political comics newspaper RESIST! The mother-daughter team’s anti-Trump forum is published by Desert Island, who produced 60,000 copies of…
New Jersey Parents Accuse School District of ‘Islamic Indoctrination’ via Animated Video
Two parents of public school students in Chatham, New Jersey have hired lawyers to represent them in a fight against what they label “Islamic indoctrination” in a middle school…
Arizona School District Pulls Kite Runner from Curriculum Mid-School Year
Students at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona are looking for answers after Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner was abruptly pulled from the curriculum…
Reading Without Walls: A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang
This month, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang officially ushers in the permanent annual version of his Reading Without Walls challenge. Recently Yang sat down with CBLDF Editorial Director Betsy Gomez to talk about…
She Changed Comics: Women in the Underground
With the rise of the raucous, raunchy, male-dominated Underground Comix scene of the 1960s and ’70s — itself a backlash against the sanitized books that passed Comics Code Authority muster — came another backlash of sorts, from women galvanized by…
She Changed Comics: Teaching Resources Now Available!
Thanks to your overwhelming support, we didn’t just fund She Changed Comics, our resource about the women who changed free expression in comics — we also funded teaching guides for higher education, high school, and middle school. Those guides are…
Alison Bechdel Named Vermont Cartoonist Laureate
Alison Bechdel, creator of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For, will be honored as Vermont’s new Cartoonist Laureate at a ceremony…
Join CBLDF for MoCCA Fest This Weekend!
This weekend finds CBLDF on both coasts — WonderCon in Anaheim and the one and only MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City! During MoCCA Fest, you’ll find us at booth G236-237, where we’ll…
Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, Peter Bagge, and Sergio Aragonés Signed Books Now Available From CBLDF!
This week, check out our premiums signed by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Peter Bagge, and Sergio Aragonés! CBLDF is rewarding your donations with great books like Grip, Citizen Rex, Speak of the Devil, and Fatima signed by Gilbert Hernandez, The Art…
Join CBLDF at WonderCon Anaheim This Weekend!
WonderCon has returned to Anaheim this year, and we’ll be there to fight for the freedom to read comics! Find us at booth #1209 at the Anaheim Convention Center, March 31 – April 2, with…