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Nick Kazden writes: Back in April, I covered the CBLDF Censorship panel at Wonder Con, and it doesn't seem like things have improved much since then Executive Director Charles Brownstein and Editorial Director Betsy Gomez gave a presentation that highlighted the state of censorship in 2017 and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's efforts to defend[...]

A couple years ago, before she hit it big in comic book stores with the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl at Marvel, Erica Henderson drew a couple issues of Valiant's Quantum and Woody series. Now, just as both she and the publisher are up for a couple of Eisner Awards apiece next week in San Diego, the artist[...]

CBLDF Defender is a giveaway comic bought in bulk by comic book stores at FCBD-or-less prices, to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, September's issue, with an Olivier Copiel Thor cover talks to Thor's writer Jason Aaron about comics, censorship, and his latest projects But also exclusive to the magazine will be a sneak[...]

Over the weekend at Awesome Con 2017, I had the honor of meeting, and interviewing, Joe Sergi from the CBLDF He held a few panels over the weekend, one of which was the History of Comics As I said in that article, I wish that panel had gone on for longer It was honestly a[...]

On Friday, June 16, fans at AwesomeCon got a chance to hear Joe Sergi from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and author of The Law For Comic Book Creators

If you aren't familiar, the CBLDF protects the freedom to read comics, and they offer legal assistance to comic creators if they need it He mentioned that the U.S seems to focus it's censorship on mostly sex and violence, with people in the community trying to ban books from libraries for such topics While Brownstein[...]

While the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has been busy supporting Simon & Schuster's right to publish the controversial book "Dangerous" by Milo

We need not endorse the ideas contained in a book to endorse the right to express them." CBLDF and the other signatories to the statement — American Booksellers Association, Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, Freedom to Read Foundation, Index on Censorship, and the National Council of Teachers of English — therefore strongly support Simon &[...]

Unlike previous years, the CBLDF do not have an official publication in the fifty Free Comic Book Day selections for next year. However, they will have a comic available that day, with the same deal as the silver titles, as part of educational offerings from Diamond. It features an as-of-yet unpublished preview of the next volume of[...]

More importantly, they made it possible for the CBLDF and for the charities supported by the Gaiman Foundation, including the CBLDF, to help make things better for people. People asked if the books and comics in the Humble Bundle would be put up for sale afterwards I said no They were part of the Bundle. The world[...]

Digital comic bundle deals, especially ones that go to help charities, are very popular now. But this is one of the first I've seen that offers up a

If you attend San Diego Comic-Con and you haven't been to one of their fundraiser parties, you've been missing out on a wonderful experience as much as a great cause. The CBLDF operates many panels throughout the convention, providing information on the legal precedents and procedures of the industry One such panel, "Sex, Violence and the[...]

They're calling it the Faith #1 SDCC Liberty Variant and it will debut at the convention and is limited to only 1,000 copies. Wimberly's FAITH #1 SDCC Liberty Variant will be available exclusively at the CBLDF's booth (#1918) inside the San Diego Convention Center and via the CBLDF website (cbldf.org) All proceeds will directly benefit the[...]

The little blue speedster is turning 25 and there's a digital comic party. Archie Comics is teaming with Humble Bundle for a Sonic the Hedgehog 25th

Image Comics has picked up the successfully Kickstartered comic She Changed Comics, created with the CBLDF as a history of women who "changed free expression" and a female history of a comic book medium often dominated in the public and comic fan conscious by men. The 160 page book will profile and interview sixty female creators from[...]

She Changed Comics is a full-colour, 160-page book coming out this autumn, funded through Kickstarter and produced by the CBLDF. While traditionally the history of comic books is dominated by male names, Shuster and Siegel, Goodman, Kane, Eisner, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, this book will profile and interview sixty female creators from the beginning of the 20th century[...]

Jesse James tells us about the Jesse James Comics exclusive cover for the first I Hate Fairyland collection by Skottie Young from Image Comics. Limited to 325 copies, split with A Comic Shop and Hypno Comics and sold for cover price, plus shipping. And on eBay. While we're looking, here's the CBLDF cover for Black Panther #1.   [...]

Each year, they face numerous challenges. And for the past few years, the challenges have been increasing. On Sunday, the CBLDF held a panel hosted by Charles Brownstein and Betsy Gomez highlighting the wave of censorship spreading across the world like kudzu, relentless and nearly impossible to stop And the results are frightening. They started with international cases[...]

Their new office will open on June 1st. They can expect lower operating expenses, and they'll be on the doorstep of Dark Horse and Oni Press as well close to the West Coasters, Boom, IDW, Image, DC Comics and San Diego Comic Con. They will leave Marvel Comics, Dynamite, Avatar and ComXology behind… CBLDF President Larry Marder says, "The[...]

The auction is being spearheaded by Nick Barrucci and Dynamite Entertainment while the pieces were showcased during the New Jersey Comic Expo recently. "We're grateful to see the incredible effort Nick Barrucci and Dynamite are putting in to make this first of its kind ComicLink auction create an impact for CBLDF's work protecting comics! Our thanks[...]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (or CBLDF) has put together some treats for anyone donating today to go along with #GivingTuesday The CBLDF handles a wide variety of cases all involving the right to read… from banned graphic novels in school and libraries to unconstitutional legislation that would effect readers, creators and retailers[...]

Recently free speech comic book charity, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, ran a recruitment drive amongst comic book retailers. It saw them either sign up or get renewals from over 471 stores, raising an extra $66,100 in the process. And they'd like to honour five retailers for gaining Champion level memberships after giving $1000 each towards Forbidden Planet, The Big Bang Comic Shop, Green Brain Comics, The[...]

I'm going to go into this admitting that I am biased here. Top Cow has hooked up with Humble Bundle to offer up what they are calling the Humble Comics

They told me, I've looked into this and while we don't comment on specific cases, we can confirm that our books policies are designed to provide a great experience for readers everywhere, and we will remove any books that break our policies: https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/1067634?hl=en-GB. Google Play refused to answer regarding who made the decisions regarding artistic value, and how, but[...]

So here's a look at the entire contents of this year's CBLDF Liberty Annual coming out from Image Comics, with contributors from Art Spiegelman to Eric Powell to Evan Dorkin. And here we get to look at three of them, first from Art Spiegelman. A Robot Race War by EJ Su… A centerfold by Tony Shasteen… And a Vietnam Archie[...]

Neil Gaiman has written a lot. A lot. And plenty of it before he was famous, scattered to the far winds. And then plenty for boutique publishers who then

Comic store workers attending this year's 2015 Diamond Retailer Summit before the Baltimore Comic Con can be part of the Silent Charity Auction. Items donated by the summit sponsors will be auctioned to raise money for Hero, CBLDF and the Centre for Cartoon Studies, and retailers will also get a chance to win a variety of door[...]

D.A.Cox writes from the editor's page of this year's CBLDF Liberty Annual from Image Comics… If you were to ask me to name the greatest human achievements in printing since Gutenberg, I would have a pretty easy time naming a top three In no particular order, I would give you the works of Charles Portis, Jack Kirby's[...]

For librarians, retailers, for readers, the Comic Book Club Handbook created by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, with San Diego Comic-Con and drawn by Rick Gerry and co-produced by Erwin Magbanua of the San Diego Public Library goes inside the hows and whys of creating a graphic novel book club. The handbook provides proven strategies for getting started, selecting[...]

Dynamite is teaming up with StoryBundle, the literature bundling site known for its support of indie authors, for a new graphic novel promotion that