ASEAN Editorial

Editorial cartoon for Reporting ASEAN 2015 and Beyond, a media fellowship which was a collaboration of the ASEAN Foundation and Inter Press Service (IPS). This was part of the exhibit at the said event. Sketched by hand and rendered in Adobe Illustrator.

I see ASEAN as an organization whose goal is to promote unity by having its member countries help their less-privileged brother and sister countries. I illustrated a symbol for ASEAN in the form of a giant faceless hand meticulously holding an ASEAN-labeled bag to a malnourished individual who represents nations in need. A ray behind the hand is meant to symbolize hope.