Join us this weekend at WonderCon for two panels on cutting-edge issues in comics culture! Saturday, March 29, at 1pm in Room 213CD: What’s Next for Comics Censorship, with the CBLDF’s Jeff Trexler, San Diego State University Lecturer Mary Stout,…
The Florida Senate’s new version of anti-graphic-novel bill SB1692 refocuses its attack on comic images. One of the key points in the CBLDF’s successful defense against the attempt to find Gender Queer obscene in Virginia was our argument that the…
Since yesterday’s post, news of Becky Burke’s return to the U.K. has at least signalled the end of her detention by ICE, though in an ideal world she would have been neither detained nor forced to leave. As we now…
The medium is the massacre in the epic finale of U.S v. Comics: The Senate Effort to Censor Comic Books, which examines how televised U.S. Senate comic book hearings in 1954 led to the creation of the infamous Comics Code.…
Check out the first episode of a new weekly webcomic on the 70th anniversary of the Senate comic book hearings – and what they teach us about censorship today!
by Brian M. Puaca As popular anxieties regarding comic books intensified after World War II, the federal government decided to enter the fray in 1954 by holding Congressional hearings to investigate the link between the four-color publications and juvenile delinquency.…
What does the removal of Art Spiegelman’s Maus from the eighth-grade public school curriculum in McMinn County, Tennessee, mean for the future of comic arts censorship? How should concerned members of the comics community respond? The following are excerpts from…
Emerald City Comic Con starts today, and CBLDF will be there! Located in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, Emerald City Comic Con runs from December 2 through December 5. Friday afternoon, from 3:45-4:45, Betsy Gomez (CBLDF coalition…
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to announce the second annual Comics in Education Survey! Educators have until July 31, 2021, to respond to the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CBLDF2021. Everyone who completes the survey will be entered in a drawing for…
