Comics are a media that almost everyone is familiar with, especially comic strips; because they are present 'unsolicited' through newspapers, magazines, and now digital social media such as Instagram. Comic strips can also be used to channelize hobbies, relieve stress and build togetherness.
As done by the Faculty of Fine Arts ISI Yogyakarta, represented by the Visual Communication Design Study Program of ISI Yogyakarta, which invites high school students from various parts of the world, participants in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2022 to create their own comic strip.
Participants who had the opportunity to take part in the Fun Workshop; Comic Strip were students from Colombia, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Portugal, as well as officials and volunteers from Indonesia.
The comic strips were designed to be liberated in form and storytelling, as the program sought to relieve the boredom and pressure that the participants were under during IOI 2022, August 7-15, 2022. In addition to being introduced to simple comic-strip techniques, the Jam-Strip method or making comic strips collaboratively was introduced at the event. Each participant creates an initial story which is then circulated to be forwarded by other participants; across drawing styles, across stories, across languages, across countries.
Creativity is important in this case, but what is more important is how to respond to the story with a picture narrative into a fun activity, until it becomes a one-page comic strip. In addition to the comics, there was joy and laughter as one story started by each participant flowed and developed into a funny, strange and unexpected story. The awkward boundaries between countries as fellow IOI contestants were melted through the interweaving of narrative stories in the form of comic strips. At the end of the event, the foreign students exchanged contacts and signatures on each collaborative comic strip that they will bring back to their respective countries.
On this occasion, the narrative-consequential cultural styles in Indonesia were introduced, ranging from the series of bas-reliefs in temples such as Borobudur and Prambanan, sequential paintings at the Kerta Gosa site in Klungkung Bali, and wayang beber, by mentor Terra Bajraghosa, M.Sn. who was accompanied by Lutse Lambert Daniel Morin, M.Sn., Alit Ayu Dewantari, M.Sn., Lily Elserisa, M.Sn. and several Visual Communication Design students.
Photo Credits: Nicky Raisa, Lily Elserisa, Alit Ayu D.
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