CBLDF Launches First Publicity Campaign for Canada Customs Case

Humberto Saabedra

Code 456The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has partnered with the Bonfire Agency in order to help publicize and bring to attention the Canada Customs Case it is currently litigating in court on behalf of an American citizen who is facing a year in Canadian prison along with being placed on both the US and Canadian sex offender registries for traveling to the border with manga on his laptop and being accused of importing child pornography.

The campaign includes print ads and .gif/Flash banners for bloggers/site owners which can be found here with the banners best pointed to the blog post on the case.

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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