Perancangan Komik Digital Bergenre Petualangan-Romantis Berlatar Belakang Bangunan Cagar Budaya di Kota Surabaya Untuk Remaja

Dewasa ini, selain komik cetak juga terdapat komik digital yang dipublikasikan melalui website dan platform komik digital seperti LINE Webtoon Indonesia yang memuat berbagai komik digital berkonten lokal dan diminati berbagai kalangan serta mampu bersaing dengan komik luar negeri. LINE Webtoon terdapat banyak komik digital lokal yang mudah diakses dan menarik untuk remaja. Komik digital berkonten lokal sendiri memiliki peluang untuk memperkenalkan budaya dan informasi sejarah. Bangunan cagar budaya di Kota Surabaya saat ini menjadi potensi wisata heritage yang dikembangkan oleh Pemerintah Kota Surabaya. Wisata heritage tersebut membuat remaja tertarik untuk mengetahui informasi sejarah. Melihat adanya potensi tersebut, maka penelitian ini dibuat untuk memperkenalkan bangunan cagar budaya melalui media komik digital. Proses penelitian ini menggunakan metode studi eksperimental, studi depth interview bersama editor komik dan komikus, studi observasi ke beberapa bangunan cagar budaya di Kota Surabaya dan studi post-test kepada target audiens untuk mendapatkan konsep, naskah cerita, desain karakter, dan storyboard. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, didapatkan konsep cerita komik digital bergenre petualangan-romantis yang disertai informasi sejarah dari beberapa bangunan cagar budaya di Kota Surabaya yang berjudul Karina’s Journal: Surabaya. Komik memiliki 2 (dua) episode yang diunggah di platform LINE Webtoon. Komik digital ini diharapkan dapat menjadi salah satu media hiburan yang memiliki nilai edukatif sejarah. ===================================================================================================== Nowadays, apart from printed comics, there are also digital comics published through websites and digital comic platforms such as LINE Webtoon Indonesia, which contains various digital comics with local content and is of interest to various groups and is able to compete with foreign comics. LINE Webtoon contains many accessible and interesting local digital comics for teenagers. Digital comics with local content have the opportunity to introduce cultural and historical information. Cultural heritage buildings in the city of Surabaya are currently a potential heritage tourism developed by the Surabaya city government. The heritage tourism makes teenagers interested in knowing historical information. Seeing this potential, this research was made to introduce cultural heritage buildings through digital comic media. This research process uses experimental study methods, depth interview studies with comic editors and comic artists, observation studies to several cultural heritage buildings in the city of Surabaya and post-test studies to the target audience to get concepts, story scripts, character designs, and storyboard. Based on the results of the study, the concept of a digital comic story with a romantic-adventure genre was obtained, accompanied by historical information from several cultural heritage buildings in the city of Surabaya, entitled Karina's Journal: Surabaya. The comic has 2 (two) episodes uploaded on the LINE Webtoon platform. This digital comic is expected to be one of the entertainment media that has historical educational value