“Comic books were made for Nazi punching,” writes historian Mark Bray in the foreword to The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded. He points out that Superman and even our own Captain Canuck originated in the 1930s before they became interwoven with Second World War, anti-fascist propaganda.

So, what does Antifa mean? Author and illustrator Gord Hill defines it this way:

“Antifa was short for anti-fascist action originally, and it was started in Germany in the 1930s by the German Communist Party. It reemerged in the 1970s in West Germany because they still had neo-Nazi organizing going on,” he said.

“And, I think in the North American context now, Antifa is more of a broad general term for anyone who involves themselves in anti-fascist organizing.”

Indeed, the term has come to encom

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