Comics
Our work is based upon stories shared with us by caregivers, advocates and community allies. Their support makes our work possible. All our comics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please see the website footer to learn how to credit our work.
For International Womxn's Day, we are launching new work that examines the 150+ year history of care work performed by racialized women in Canada, including Live-in Caregivers
We created this artwork for Remember | Resist | Redraw - a radical history poster project produced by the Graphic History Collective (GHC) that aims to intervene in the Canada 150 conversation. Collectively, we hope to encourage people to critically examine history in ways that can fuel our radical imaginations and support struggles for radical change. Thank you to Dr. Ethel Tungohan, GHC and all the caregivers, advocates and community allies whose support makes our work possible. |
Drawn To Change

Kwentong Bayan’s mini-comic on the history of the Live-in Caregiver Program and contextual essays by Conely de Leon and Zenee May Maceda has been published in the print anthology, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle.
The book is edited by The Graphic History Collective with cover montage illustrated by Kara Sievewright. Thank you to the Graphic History Collective for all their support and congrats to all our fellow artists!
Available for purchase now from Between The Lines Press:
https://btlbooks.com/book/drawn-to-change
The book is edited by The Graphic History Collective with cover montage illustrated by Kara Sievewright. Thank you to the Graphic History Collective for all their support and congrats to all our fellow artists!
Available for purchase now from Between The Lines Press:
https://btlbooks.com/book/drawn-to-change
Imaginings Project: Comics and the Anthropological Imagination

Thanks to curator Stacy Leigh Pigg and Cristina Moretti at the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography for featuring Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love in the “Imaginings Project: Comics and the Anthropological Imagination”.
Imaginings is a new space for projects which aim to disrupt, disturb, enrage, muddle; a generative space to think about new and old questions, in new and sometimes old ways.
VIEW: http://imaginativeethnography.org/imaginings/comics/kwentong-bayan-labour-of-love-an-excerpt/
Imaginings is a new space for projects which aim to disrupt, disturb, enrage, muddle; a generative space to think about new and old questions, in new and sometimes old ways.
VIEW: http://imaginativeethnography.org/imaginings/comics/kwentong-bayan-labour-of-love-an-excerpt/
Graphic History Project
Kwentong Bayan's contribution to the Graphic History Project is a 10 page mini-comic consisting of five double-page spreads that highlight key turning points in the history of the Live-in Caregiver Program. We will expand on these storylines in our full-length comic, Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love which is currently under production. The style of these "splash pages" are inspired by Filipino comic book illustrator and writer, Francisco V. Coching (1919-1998).
You can view this series online, along with other graphic histories of resistance commissioned by the Graphic History Collective from 2014-2015. The Graphic History Project will be published in book format in 2016.
LINK: http://graphichistorycollective.com/projects/graphic-history-project/kwentong-bayan-labour-of-love/
LINK: http://graphichistorycollective.com/projects/graphic-history-project/kwentong-bayan-labour-of-love/