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This article examines the various false starts of the Quebec comic strip (BDQ), which has existed since the beginning of the twentieth century but only became conceptualized in the late 1960s. From this period onward, several movements, experiments, and magazines emerged in the province, asserting a BDQ (or “kébécoise”) that was independent from its American and Franco-Belgian influences. This discourse, carried by the authors and echoed by the general media, was born in a general context of identity affirmation in Quebec, which was particularly present in this decade, and which ultimately allowed the BDQ to gain a certain visibility over several years, notably with a dedicated book published in 1975. A study of the discourses and texts of the period shows that it would take a few more years and the development of a not strictly identity-based discourse for the ecosystem created during this period to lead to a first structural success for the profession, after multiple announcements of (re)birth.