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Houston TV station KHOU uncovered a Texas school library banning system that went under the radar, including a number of graphic novels.

We mentioned the Oni Press/Comic Book Legal Defense Fund/CBLDF party for San Diego Comic-Con, in our Even Bigger San Diego Comic-Con Party List For 2023 post We'll have to add a few more details And a little animation. Maia Kobabe is the most censored author in the USA today for eir graphic memoir Gender Queer[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new

Bleeding Cool has been running many articles about recent news coverage about the graphic novel Gender Queer: A Graphic Memoir by Maia Kobabe as a new

The matter will be devoted on the 20th of October. While the CBLDF will be running a couple of webinars next week regarding this topic too. Gender Queer in Virginia Beach: A Case Study –  Monday, September 19th noon EST Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer: A Memoir achieved resounding victory in the Virginia courts[...]

A Week In The Life Of Banned Graphic Novel, Gender Queer

Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, posted a tweet questioning the Republican Party's stance against gambling, calling them "fun haters,

We caught art from Lewis LaRosa, Ramon Villalobos, Alberto Ponticelli, David Lapham and more. Also spotted at the party, Matt Kindt of course, but  Josh Dysart, Kevin McGuire, John Layman, Xander Canon, Gonzo, Kyle Higgins, Chip Mosher, Christina Merkler of DCBS and Lunar and the President of the CBLDF, Jenn Haines, President of ComicsPRO, Benny Potter of Comicstorian,[...]

A statement from the Hilton Bayfront reads, "We are continuing to welcome guests and have contingency plans in place to ensure operations run as smoothly as possible… We are confident that the hotel and the union will reach a fair agreement that is beneficial to both our valued Team Members and to our hotel." Strikers at[...]

Bleeding Cool's Mammoth San Diego Comic-Con SDCC 2022 Party List - The first draft.

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

Join the defense of comics by becoming a member of CBLDF or making a year end donation. Bleeding Cool has been covering a number of these events and more, which seem to have increased in number and intensity through 2021 Is this a forerunner of things for Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to deal with in[...]

I note that the Comic Book Legal Defense fund is already taking interest in this issue. Thank *you* for all you're doing to call attention to this! If you'd like to speak with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, we're here to help – @cbldf can be reached via https://t.co/5n0oKCf4R0 or my direct email, jeff.trexler@cbldf.org. — Comic[...]

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

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund or CBLDF has added comic book creator Amy Chu, comic book editor Joseph Illidge, and comic convention organiser Pam Noles to its Board of Directors Illidge and Noles will start their tenure on the CBLDF Board of Directors immediately, while Chu will join in January 2022 Chu, Illidge, and[...]

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

And issued NFTs on a number of created artworks featuring DC Comics characters. And then Jeff Trexler, Interim Director of the CBLDF, took the opportunity to use this as a positive talking point He wrote with the CBLDF social media account on Twitter, This open letter @mikedeodato underscores the constructive potential of the NFT moment – it's[...]

Tomorrow, the free speech activist charity, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), will be hosting a Zoom workshop, titled Ethics for All: Building Policy Together Schedules for the 25th of March at 5-6 pm PT, 8-9 pm ET and from midnight to 1 am GMT. The CBLDF Creates Its Own Ethics Committee The CBDLF states "The[...]

The CBLDF – or Comic Book Legal Defense Fund – recently talked about their new leadership structure and plans to expand their role beyond a free speech charitable activist movement Bleeding Cool represented this as "defending whistleblowers and challenging algorithms." The CBLDF will be addressing recent issues over the last year regarding the pandemic, looking at[...]

However, as a result, the CBLDF saw many partner publishers and organisations pull away from the body, as revelations regarding NDAs that the organisation had made people sign were lifted, board members retired and resigned, as accounts were given and shared. CBLDF – Defending Whistleblowers, Challenging Algorithms and Brexit? The meeting was attended by Education Director, Karen[...]

But Ramshackle has his own demons to wrestle with, and he'll need Soupy just as much as she needs him. Soupy Leaves Home Graphic Novel Gains CBLDF Educational Supplement Dr Meryl Jaffe, PhD teaches visual literacy and critical reading at Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth Online Program and is the author of Worth A Thousand[...]

Brownstein was pushed/resigned and it emerged that some staffers had to sign NDAs – which seemed an anathema to a free speech organisation like the CBLDF. Today, the CBLDF has stated that it has "been going through a transitional period these last couple of months as we analyze our community's concerns and reevaluate our internal procedures[...]

We reported last month how former employee Shy Allott had requested – and received permission from the CBLDF to disregard the NDA she had signed years ago, and she tells the Comics Journal what that NDA covered and why she was made to sign it And states that as part of an oft-gruelling job, she[...]

Last weekend saw mounting criticism of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) and its then-director Charles Brownstein, over claims of sexual molestation against a number comic creators, from 2005 and afterwards, and over an NDA held by the CBLDF board against a former employee As well as Brownstein stepping down, there were calls for[...]

Following the resignation of Executive Director Charles Brownstein as a response to long-reported sexual assault allegations and following a vote by the board to remove him, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has agreed to release Cheyenne "Shy" Allott from a 2010 NDA she signed when leaving the company Allott posted a letter requesting release[...]