Second Annual CBLDF Fund Drive

It's December, so it's time for YACB's Second Annual Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) Fund Drive.

It's styled on the matching-funds pledge drives that my local NPR station does (but without interrupting Car Talk six times in an hour...)

For the period between now and December 24, if 10 people join as CBLDF members at the $25 level (or higher) I will donate $250 to CBLDF.

(To donate, go to the CBLDF Website, click on the link across the top that says 'Membership', the scroll down to the join link.)

Just email me the confirmation email that you get from CBLDF when you make your donation. I'll post periodic updates until the goal has been met. (Please mention in your email if you'd prefer to remain anonymous.)

From the CBLDF site: "The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community."

Update - December 23 We've reached our goal of 10 contributors. Thanks to everyone who participated!

New Library Comics: Week of November 28, 2005

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


Emerson, Hunt. The big book of everything /London : Knockabout Comics, c1983.

Feuchtenberger, Anke, 1963- Mutterkuchen /Berlin : Jochen Enterprises, c1995.

Lecroart, Etienne, 1960- Ratatouille /Paris : Editions du Seuil, c2000.

Mr. Stocca. Les jours etrangers /Belgrade : REX / Samizdat B92, 2002.

Panter, Gary. Satiroplastic : [sketchbook facsimile] /Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the USA and abroad by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005- v. 1

Christmas Covers - December 5

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

Today's cover is from 1996: Artists Dan DeCarlo & Mike Sagara give us the cover for the Christmas-themed Shanda the Panda #14.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 20 more 'get-ups' until Santa!