Comic is a popular art with significant socio-cultural impact in Indonesia, through decades. One of the most prominent genres of Indonesian comic is wayang stories, based on the traditional arts of wayang which frequently retold Indian epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana. In accordance with the passing of time, visual styles of wayang comic also changed. Each comic artist of different generations exhibits different visual styles that also indicated their references and reinterpretations on wayang’s charaterizations and storytelling. Using modified Art Critic methods, this paper will analyzing and comparing the visual styles of three comic artists which represent three generations, focusing on their visualization of Arjuna and Bima characters. The analysis results indicates that the visualization of wayang comic continuing to develop in accordance with the readers, society in general.
Keywords: Wayang, Comic Artist, Visual Style, Generation, Characterization