CBLDF’s work is possible because of our members, which include comics retailers such as Katie and Dan Merritt of Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan. For the latest issue of CBLDF Defender, we grabbed a moment with Dan and Katie…
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Librarians Brainstorm Solutions to Build and Defend Graphic Novel Collections
Now more than ever before, comics are an indispensable component of many public libraries’ collections. A decade or two ago they might have been treated as ephemera, but today they are often curated with the same level of care as…
Common Sense and Censorship Don’t Always Go Hand-in-Hand
In a recent post from the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, Pat Peters examined the relationship between common sense and censorship — or, rather, the lack of a relationship between the two. Peters provided a few examples of challenges that…
What Do We Know About the Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016?
It’s that time of year again: This week, the American Library Association released its list of the top ten most challenged books for 2016. CBLDF has joined in the defense of several titles on the list, so today we’re taking a…
2016 VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award Accepting Nominations
Nominations for the Virginia Library Association Graphic Novel Diversity Award are now being accepted. The award, which celebrates its second year, aims to highlight diversity in graphic novels with the goal of helping libraries to promote education and reading. Whether…
Comics on Texas ACLU List of 2015-16 School Bans and Challenges
At least five books were banned from Texas public and charter schools in the 2015-2016 school year, according to the annual report of banned and challenged books that was released by the state ACLU chapter this week. Comics appeared in…
The Oregonian on the Detriments of Banning Books
In time for Banned Books Week, Steve Duin of The Oregonian talks about the problems with banning books and graphic novels and how, even in a day and age in which freedom of speech is celebrated, schools, libraries, and bookstores are still…
Henning School Board Restores This One Summer to Library, with Restrictions
The school board in Henning, Minnesota voted 4-2 last night to allow Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer back on library shelves at the district’s single K-12 school–with a few conditions. The book must be shelved in a separate…
CBLDF Joins Defense of This One Summer in MN School
CBLDF this week signed on to a letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Kids’ Right to Read Project urging the school district in Henning, Minnesota, to restore Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel This One Summer to library shelves, and…
This One Summer Banned in Minnesota School
The award-winning and critically acclaimed graphic novel This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki has been banned from the single K-12 school in the small town of Henning, Minnesota. According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom,…