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Comic Book Legal Defense Fund panel was great until the fire alarm went off at WonderCon. Very important work still being done by this group to protect creators and the 1st amendment

Today at WonderCon from 2:00-3:00pm, Room 213AB: our annual Defending Comics Today update panel! wondercon2024.sched.com/event/1azbQ

We're at WonderCon with our newest Defending Comics Today update panel - Friday, March 29, from 2:00-3:00pm, Room 213AB!
wondercon2024.sched.com/event/1azbQ

As the subsequent post notes, Fun Home and Gender Queer are two of the allegedly obscene books said to have no literary, artistic, political, or scientific value as a matter of law.

I hear the library’s Teen section is shutting down. City Council wants only a restrictive adult section and children’s section (with a limited number of books). 😢

Librarians in #HuntingtonBeach started removing books about puberty & the human body from the kids' library today and moving them to the adult section.

I saw it in action and have some other inside info in this story 👇

laist.com/news/politics/…

Kids' graphic novel The Curse of King Tut's Tomb gets removed from another elementary school - complaint not publicly released yet, but we'll be following up. postandcourier.com/columbia/educa…

'Burkhardt said that after reading the Scholastic book with the 'single kiss,' she 'looked for other books that gave me pleasure.''

The image in question is from Drama by Raina Telgemeier

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As far as I can tell, the district didn't even HAVE any copies of our book. They just wanted to preemptively announce that our book, which they haven't read, would lower property values if allowed in a school they have nothing to do with

Here's the report
live5news.com/2024/02/05/dor…

Looks like we'll be adding 'graphic novels in schools lower property values' to the list of book-challenge arguments to rebut ...