Hanif Bahari
Artwork
Editorial cartoon of a regime figure riding a missile above a burning country while people are dragged behind

Artwork

The Will to Burn

Year
2026
Category
Editorial Cartoon
Medium
Mechanical pencil and digital coloring

Context

The country burns below, while power rises above it.

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Clinging to a missile like a warhorse, the regime charges forward with sword raised, dragging the people behind through fire and ruin. The destruction beneath is not an obstacle to its ambitions, it is the price others are expected to pay.

When ideology values confrontation more than the lives beneath it, survival itself becomes an act of resistance.