The Comic Book Legal Defense fund has unveiled its 2012 Membership drive program and the incentives for comic book fans, creators, publishers, and retailers to do the right thing and support the CBLDF are better than ever.  It all starts with Cliff Chiang’s striking new design for the CBLDF membership card, which channels the potent WPA poster art of the 1930s for a powerful tribute to Lady Liberty who holds up the banner of free expression.

 

A standard membership in the CBLDF costs $25 and provides every member with Chiang’s stunning full color card to place in their wallet.  At the $50 “Supporter” level, members will receive the card, a window decal, and a button set that includes a badge proclaiming membership in the CBLDF.

 

The $100 “Advocate” level membership includes all the bennies of the lower levels plus a choice between a CBLDF tote designed by Sergio Aragones, or an “I Read Banned Comics” t-shirt, or a CBLDF branded water bottle emblazoned with the gone-but-not-forgotten Comics Code Authority label.

 

The $250 “Defender” membership includes the “Supporter” level package plus two of the “Advocate” level premiums.  The $500 “Protector” level membership includes all of the “Supporter” and “Advocate” packages plus these “Protector” level members will have their names listed in the Liberty Annual 2013 publication, and they will also receive a limited edition, full color print of the membership card artwork, numbered and signed by Cliff Chiang.

 

The $1000 “Champion” membership includes all the premiums in the other membership packages plus the member’s choice of an autographed hardcover signed on an exclusive “CBLDF Champion” bookplate, from one of the following:

 
 1.  Watchmen, signed by Dave Gibbons

 2.  Maus, signed by Art Spiegelman

 3.  Preacher Deluxe Edition Vol. 1, signed by Garth Ennis

 4.  Y: The Last Man Deluxe Edition Vol.1, signed by Brian K. Vaughan

 5.  The Graveyard Book, signed by Neil Gaiman