What started as a personal exercise to participate in a drawing challenge for the month of October eventually turned into a curated series of digital illustrations created from random pieces of Filipino-American history I’ve always found fascinating.

Tino “Rosie” Camanga was a Filipino tattoo artist who worked in Honolulu’s Chinatown neighborhood in the 1930s-40s. Read the original post here.

There’s like, hella Filipino nurses in the US. Is it because we are inherently caring, serving, hospitable people? Why do so many of our parents highly encourage us to pursue a medical career? Why do Filipinos comprise nearly one-third of all foreign-born nurses working in the US? Read the original post here.

By the 1930s, Filipino busboys and bar backs started taking on bartending jobs in new tiki bars and fuckin killed it, inventing popular cocktails that remain on tiki bar menus today. Read the original post here.

The 1920s & 30s marks the Great Pinoy Boxing Era, an interesting chapter of Filipino-American history. After US imperialism acquired the Philippines from Spain at the turn of the 19th century, the American military saw a new kind of fighting style in Filipinos and handed them some boxing gloves. Read the original post here.

Research, Copywriting, Illustration. Read and view the full series here.