In its increasing effort to reach out to young people, the ACLU has teamed with some excellent talent and some very high-profile individuals to create a comic book about the need to preserve our civil rights. The comic does not appear to be a superhero book, though Palmiotti and Mark Badger at least are old time superhero creators and the book has a very evocative title: Defenders of Freedom.
Defenders of Freedom will also be available online, and is scheduled for a September release. Art Spielgelman, who won the Pullitzer for Maus, his comic on the Holocaust, is doing the back cover and ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero is writing an introduction.
Full details can be found here.