censorship Archives

The episode is only half an hour long, at least ten minutes shorter than the other episodes in the series, possibly because of censorship There's a lot of speculation that ten whole minutes were cut out while others were reshot to water down the brutality of government officials during that era. "The Three-Body Problem" still, Tencent The[...]

Polk County in Florida is the latest to be subject to banning of the critically acclaimed bestselling graphic novels from schools, part of a series of

Right now, Maus Book One by Art Spiegelman is the second best-selling book on Amazon. The Complete Maus is the fourth best-selling book on Amazon. And

Forty-two years after it was first released, Art Spiegelman's Maus is currently the twelfth best-selling graphic novel on Amazon.com for Book One, and

But, with the New Year upon us, they are making an appeal to their most basic of missions, defending Free Speech and fighting censorship in the United States Of America, when it comes to comic books. The official logo of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund As we approach the new year, attacks on comics are intensifying. In[...]

Remember, remember, November is the month for V For Vendetta stories. Bleeding Cool recently ran an article about how an elected Texan politician sent out

Two of the largest school districts in Texas, Austin and Dallas Independent School Districts, have stated that they will not comply with Republican

The Goddard school district of Kansas has reversed a decision that previously saw them remove more than two dozen books from circulation in the district’s

Texas State Representative Matt Krause has submitted a list of 828 books to Lily Laux, deputy commissioner of school programs at the Texas Education

Jerry Craft, creator of the middle-grade graphic novels New Kid - the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Awards and Class Act has seen a speaking

The children's comic book I Am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer and Chris Elipolous has been banned by a school board in York, Pennsylvania. It is one of a list

With the curmudgeon edicts taking place, the chilling effect also extends to Hong Kong as a once-thriving arts industry begins feeling the same levels of creative oppression as the rest of China has with censorship reigning supreme "Any film for public exhibition, past, present, and future will need to get approval," Commerce Secretary Edward Yau[...]

Comic book retailers have been told that the new comic book series, The Secret Land, may not be sold in Germany, and that all orders to German stores have

This week in the Week in Comics we are joined by Ali Jaffery the Hunk, a man who uncovered a vast comics conspiracy. Plus: X-Men Recaps!

Removing episodes from television shows adds to continuity issues and it's censorship Instead of arbitrarily deciding what is acceptable to viewers, let them decide and even better? Have a mechanism in place so that they can learn why the depictions are so wrong. Since TV adopted its rating system with added symbols disclaiming the type of[...]

Kieron Dwyer has three upcoming books from Image Comics, his collection of Trump-related stripes Unpresidented, a hardcover reprint of Last of the

CBLDF and National Coalition Against Censorship went to bat immediately for the important memoir, and eventually the schools relented and returned it to the shelves. Then, a lawsuit was brought against school district employees in Watchung Hills about the inclusion of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home exactly a year after the graphic memoir had been retained in 2018, despite parental[...]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is running a series of retailer webinars to help promote their CBLDF 2019/2020 Retailer Membership program and donation

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund believes that identity censorship is the most frequent form of intellectual freedom challenge today From moral panic about Drag Queen Story Hour to frequent challenges to LGBTQ+ comics, books, and authors, the CBLDF is looking to engages a panel of experts to help identify and intelligently address this growing[...]

I do not understand that there is censorship If it is pornographic material, offered without the standards, it will be collected. Avengers: The Children's Crusade does not contain any pornographic material, but it does feature a gay kiss and romance between two of its teenage characters, Wiccan and Hulkling, which Crivella's administration has made no secret[...]

Wallace Junior/Senior High School in Idaho has banned all copies of The Walking Dead from the school library despite a recommendation of the school's

This weekend's Diamond Retailer Summit is bringing all sorts of things out in the open. Keep up with this handy dandy tag. And that includes the news that

All Rights Reserved. According to sources close to the matter, Robert and Michelle King informed CBS All Access/CBS TV Studios that the creative decision had been made to replace the content in question with the censorship message detailed above A spokesperson for the streamer confirmed that the posted message was the result of conversations and negotiations: "We[...]

It's a multi-award winning book and has been very popular amongst younger readers as well as older ones. The National Coalition Against Censorship which included the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund reported the school administrators at the two high schools objected to one single page in Fun Home, deciding to ignore their own policies and limit[...]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund reports that critically acclaimed comic book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, has been removed from a

This level of censorship is unjustified, unacceptable and totally at odds with the Department's mission and obligations to the people of Louisiana.' No mention of Bitch Planet being banned but it's only a matter of time… you can see the whole list here. [scribd id=394398095 key=key-XIYgaEGHhFW72E5e1mTL mode=scroll] The Times-Picayune of Louisiana has published the results of a[...]

Additionally, DC gave a reason for the self-censorship, claiming that despite the fact that the Batpenis garnered more attention than DC has had in decades and may change the landscape of the medium forever, it just "was not additive to the story." This prompted CBR reporter Steve Morris to wonder: https://twitter.com/stevewmorris/status/1042775115396784128 That's a good question[...]

In an unexpected move for the usually anti-censorship publisher, Image Comics sent out a press release Thursday urging readers to join them in celebrating banned books Even more strangely, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, an organization which is dedicated to fighting censorship, is in on it too. Image Comics is celebrating Banned Books Week with[...]

Read Banned Comics also shows how to report and fight censorship, suggests programming ideas, and gives more tips to make a celebration of Banned Books Week. CBLDF is an official sponsor of Banned Books Week, and this year's theme is Banning Books Silences Stories, a call to action for everyone to stand up against censorship[...]

The Pittsburgh City Paper screencapped a tweet in September of 2016 of Block posing with Trump on a private plane ride. While the censorship of Rogers' cartoons is clearly politically motivated, his firing was likely compounded by the negative publicity the paper, along with Block and Burris, were receiving over it On June 6th, CNN ran[...]