Tag: CBLDF

At the ComicsPRO meeting this morning, it was just announced that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is moving it's offices from New York to Portland this year. The CBLDF, which is run by...

A new auction that runs until tomorrow features some tasty comics art and benefits both The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization. You get some great art and help free speech AND cats? How is this not the win of the year? Dynamic Forces has teamed with the auction house Comic Link for the auction.

Librarians and educators have become some of the strongest proponents for graphic novels as teaching tools and good reading; the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has just announced Comics Connector, a resource that will help institutions...

Christmas/Seasonal parties for comics folks in in NYC are mostly about the big two and not everyone gets invited to those. But tomorrow the CBLDF and the Society of Illustrators are teaming for a...

After black and small and cyber on the Holiday schedule comes #giving —#givingTuesday, the day on which charitable contributions are suggested. The CBLDF is offering a premium for contributions made today: a #GivingTuesday edition...

It's Banned Books Week, a n annual event mostly held in libraries which spotlights attempts to remove books. This year's theme is graphic novels, as discussed in this article from PW by Rich Shivener....

The week between SPX and the Brooklyn Book Festival has evolved into a real "indie super week" on the eastern seaboard, as touring cartoonists barnstormed and socialized at a furious pace. The week perhaps...

And here's another great event for the weekend, Brandon Graham talking about Comics, Creativity, and Censorship at the Society of Illustrators/ The event is sponsored by the CBLDF. Brandon Graham, the acclaimed cartoonist of the...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Fredric Wertham's influential and notorious Seduction of the Innocent, and Comic Con's programming schedule includes several panels addressing the book and its core themes. Today (Thursday) at noon,...

If you were to guess what the 10 most banned or challenged books in the US in 2013 were, you might guess 50 Shades of Grey for its class-consciousness tinged bondage romance; or John...

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund website has a bunch of giftables available now, including signed books by Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Geoff Johns, Art Spiegelman and pretty much anyone who is anyone. Here's...

Okay... here's a sampling of what's been being fed through the newswires today from the Comic-Carnival in San Diego... --- Man of Action Studios partners remember how Comic-Con used to be: (I'd love to see this animated!) Steven...