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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Contacts and Relevant Organizations

This guide highlights the annual Banned Books Week each Fall, and provides information about book banning, censorship and intellectual freedom. It was started in 2014, and new content is added.

Featured Resources

logo for Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

The theme for BBW 2014 is graphic novels, and you can read more about banned and challenged comics, which is a page created by an organization on the forefront of defending comics and graphic novels against censorship, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.Its site also contains News related to censorship of comics, and many Resources about the history of comics and censorship.


Check out the Library's database Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels

This collection includes North American and European adult comic books and graphic novels, covering primary source material from the 1960s to today, along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines like The Comics Journal and other secondary sources.database logo