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Don’t forget the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Member Appreciation Party is tomorrow night! It’s free drinks for a good cause. How could you not show up?

Wednesday, June 24th
6pm to 9pm
Village Pourhouse
64 3rd Ave. at 11th St.
NYC

Enjoy a free open bar of Bud Light & Well Drinks courtesy of clicklinksforfreedrinks.com.

CBLDF Members get into the party for FREE by showing their member card. Not a member of the CBLDF? Well you should be! Join today for only $25 at cbldf.org or sign up at the party. Non-members have a $10 cover to get in. A small cover for free drinks… You can’t get a better deal in NYC!

Want a free drink? And want to help the CBLDF? There’s only one answer, isn’t there? Come on out to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Member Appreciation Party!

Wednesday, June 24th
6pm to 9pm
Village Pourhouse
64 3rd Ave. at 11th St.
NYC

Enjoy a free open bar of Bud Light & Well Drinks courtesy of clicklinksforfreedrinks.com.

CBLDF Members get into the party for FREE by showing their member card. Not a member of the CBLDF? Well you should be! Join today for only $25 at cbldf.org or sign up at the party. Non-members have a $10 cover to get in. A small cover for free drinks… You can’t get a better deal in NYC!

Del Rey Manga’s Ali T. Kokmen was spotted at this week’s New York Comic Con Happy Hour at Dave and Busters in Times Square. Will he be spotted again at the CBLDF’s Member Appreciation Party on June 24? Only one way to find out… You gotta be there.

Wednesday, June 24th
6pm to 9pm
Village Pourhouse
64 3rd Ave. at 11th St.
NYC

Enjoy a free open bar of Bud Light & Well Drinks courtesy of clicklinksforfreedrinks.com.

CBLDF Members get into the party for FREE by showing their member card. Not a member of the CBLDF? Well you should be! Join today for only $25 at cbldf.org or sign up at the party. Non-members have a $10 cover to get in. A small cover for free drinks… You can’t get a better deal in NYC!

As you may know, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (or CBLDF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.

On October 9, 2008, the CBLDF announced that it will participate as a special consultant to the defense of Christopher Handley, a 38-year-old Iowa manga collector who faces up to 20 years in prision for possession of manga that the government claims to be obscene. Of his collection of more than 1,200 volumes of manga seized by the government, Handley is being prosecuted for images that occur in just a handful of volumes. No photographic content is at issue in Handley’s case.

CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein commented, “Handley’s case is deeply troubling, because the government is prosecuting a private collector for possession of art. In the past, CBLDF has had to defend the First Amendment rights of retailers and artists, but never before have we experienced the Federal Government attempting to strip a citizen of his freedom because he owned comic books.”

Putting the case into further context, CBLDF Legal Counsel Burton Joseph said, “In the lengthy time in which I have represented CBLDF and its clients, I have never encountered a situation where criminal prosecution was brought against a private consumer for possession of material for personal use in his own home. This prosecution has profound implications in limiting the First Amendment for art and artists, and comics in particular, that are on the cutting edge of creativity. It misunderstands the nature of avant-garde art in its historical perspective and is a perversion of anti-obscenity laws.”

Regardless of the extent of one’s involvement in the manga hobby, Christopher Handley’s situation is obviously a point of interest if not outright concern. I encourage—I implore—anybody with any affection for manga to make the effort to learn more about the case. (To start, more information on the case and the CBLDF’s involvement is available here.)