Last year's SPX lecture on CBLDF at Library of Congress online

Carol Tyler will be doing this year's talk tomorrow at noon at the Library.

TITLE: The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: Comics & the Power of Intellectual Freedom
SPEAKER: Charles Brownstein
EVENT DATE: 2017/09/15
RUNNING TIME: 71 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)

https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8259

https://stream-media.loc.gov/webcasts/captions/2017/170915sgp1200.txt

DESCRIPTION:

Charles Brownstein shared the history of comic book censorship from the medium's origins to the present day. He discussed the censorship trend that began in the 1940s, and how history informs legal challenges to graphic novels today. This program is the sixth annual SPX Festival program sponsored by the Library of Congress through its Serial and Government Publications Division.

Speaker Biography: Charles Brownstein is the executive director of the non-profit Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.