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Banned Books Week Coalition says comics (and graphic novels) are one of the most commonly attacked types of books in United States public libraries and schools every year. Here are some of the challenged and banned graphic books that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has worked to protect.
Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui (VIZ Media, 2014)
Drama by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic / Graphix, 2012)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)
The Graveyard Book, adapted by P. Craig Russell from the novel by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, 2014)
Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges and polterink (BOOM! Studios, 2018)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon, 2007)
Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, edited by Ariel Schrag (Viking Juvenile, 2007)
Sword Art Online: Aincrad by Reki Kawahara and abec (Yen Press, 2017)
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (First Second, 2014)
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image Comics, 2003)
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (DC Comics, 1987)
Source: https://bannedbooksweek.org/11-challenged-and-banned-comics/
More comic books that have been targeted for censorship are at http://cbldf.org/banned-comic/.
Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui (VIZ Media, 2014)
Drama by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic / Graphix, 2012)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)
The Graveyard Book, adapted by P. Craig Russell from the novel by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, 2014)
Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges and polterink (BOOM! Studios, 2018)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon, 2007)
Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, edited by Ariel Schrag (Viking Juvenile, 2007)
Sword Art Online: Aincrad by Reki Kawahara and abec (Yen Press, 2017)
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (First Second, 2014)
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image Comics, 2003)
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (DC Comics, 1987)
Source: https://bannedbooksweek.org/11-challenged-and-banned-comics/
More comic books that have been targeted for censorship are at http://cbldf.org/banned-comic/.
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School Bans: 2021 and 2022
Last month, the American Library Association (ALA) released its report on the "Top 10 Challenged Books" and PEN America released its report "Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten Free Expression and Students' First Amendment Rights". PEN's report focuses on books removed within the nine months from July 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022.
Many of the challenges came from organized groups, rather than individuals within the community, and were for tens to hundreds of titles each time.
As in recent years, the banning focuses on Black, Indigenous (/ Native American), and various people of color; LGBTQ+ authors, characters, and themes; social justice; and sex education. A quick look at the numbers: 1,586 bans involving 1,081 writers and artists. The bans reportedly impeded access for over two million grade-school students in the USA.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) picked out the named graphic novels or books that rely heavily on sequential art, finding 39 separate works. All 39 are listed below.
• A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano
• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood, Art & Adaptation by Renee Nault
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• New Kid and Class Act by Jerry Craft
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellie, Shae Beagle, and Kate Leth
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom, and Adventure by Susan Hughes and Willow Dawson
• Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman
• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
• The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Drawn Together by Minh Lê and Dan Santat
• Identity: A Story of Transitioning by Corey Maison
• Losing the Girl, Book 1 by MariNaomi
• I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson, and John Jennings
• V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
• Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Nelson Beats the Odds and Tameka’s New Dress by Ronnie Sidney II and Traci Van Waggoner
• The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith
• Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
• The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by ND Stevenson
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
• This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
• Saga: Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and José Marzãn, Jr.
• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
Source: http://cbldf.org/2022/04/pen-report-reveals-all-graphic-novels-banned-in-the-las...
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Last month, the American Library Association (ALA) released its report on the "Top 10 Challenged Books" and PEN America released its report "Banned in the USA: Rising School Book Bans Threaten Free Expression and Students' First Amendment Rights". PEN's report focuses on books removed within the nine months from July 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022.
Many of the challenges came from organized groups, rather than individuals within the community, and were for tens to hundreds of titles each time.
As in recent years, the banning focuses on Black, Indigenous (/ Native American), and various people of color; LGBTQ+ authors, characters, and themes; social justice; and sex education. A quick look at the numbers: 1,586 bans involving 1,081 writers and artists. The bans reportedly impeded access for over two million grade-school students in the USA.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) picked out the named graphic novels or books that rely heavily on sequential art, finding 39 separate works. All 39 are listed below.
• A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano
• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood, Art & Adaptation by Renee Nault
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• New Kid and Class Act by Jerry Craft
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• Moonstruck, Vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellie, Shae Beagle, and Kate Leth
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom, and Adventure by Susan Hughes and Willow Dawson
• Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman
• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
• The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Drawn Together by Minh Lê and Dan Santat
• Identity: A Story of Transitioning by Corey Maison
• Losing the Girl, Book 1 by MariNaomi
• I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson, and John Jennings
• V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
• Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Nelson Beats the Odds and Tameka’s New Dress by Ronnie Sidney II and Traci Van Waggoner
• The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith
• Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
• The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by ND Stevenson
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
• This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
• Saga: Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and José Marzãn, Jr.
• Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
Source: http://cbldf.org/2022/04/pen-report-reveals-all-graphic-novels-banned-in-the-las...
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