ABSTRACT
Women’s issues are frequently brought up within cultural studies and academic discourses in correlation with the patriarchal culture which is still embedded in traditional Javanese views. Issues that are rarely studied are women’s portrayal in Indonesian comics, especially the wayang genre that refers to Javanese culture. Wayang art is significant to Javanese culture, along with its patriarchal ideology. By assumption, that ideology is also reflected in the wayang comics. Using descriptive qualitative analysis, preceded by aesthetical morphology, this paper discussed the way a wayang comic artist visualized princess characters. Teguh Santosa was chosen due to his reputation as an Indonesian comic maestro, along with his sensual visualization of women. Finally, the kind of sociocultural context with which Teguh perceived women, and the visual translation method he invented, was explored. This will complete understanding on Javanese wayang adaptations into comics and the possibility of it being realized in digital media.
