Kayak is the only place you’ll find original comics about our amazing Canadian past. Read graphic-novel-style stories from our history, brought to life by illustrator Alex Diochon in the pages of the magazine.




Comic Crackdown

Kids have loved comics as long as there have been exciting and funny books of them around. But for a time in the late 1940s and 1950s, adults worried comics were getting too scary and grown-up for kids, so the government got involved. It didn't really work, but it did change comics forever.

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Project partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage.
  • Canadian Heritage / Patrimoine Canadien
  • Government of Canada
  • HBC: Hudson's Bay Company
  • ecentricarts inc.