NOVEL GRAFIS PEWAYANGAN ASTABASU

Astabasu is the story of the Mahabharata is puppet art and culture, in particular the local and becomes the nation’s heritage of Indonesia. Progress and the technology advances of making art puppet much forgotten by some of society. An example of a lot of forgotten puppet is Astabasu, many people don’t know that Astabasu is the origin of the existence of a local superhero who exists in Indonesia such as Gatotkaca, Arjuna, Bisma, and others. Although Astabasu also in the India story.but too many changes and modification story of the cultural Indonesia especially of Java. Astabasu tells the story of eight Gods down to earth and from that, appearing figure Gods who descend to earth and from there, the true Gods figure appears named Bisma as the lead parts. A lot of people who have yet to recognize the figure of Bisma, but figures like Arjuna, Gatotkaca is widely known to the public as a superhero. Moreover many young generation who forget story of wayang. Media Indonesia’s culture as the introduction can be through a variety of media, namely graphic novel is which is a very easy to read media reach nd closest to the community, and of the various generations of younger generations. Keyword: Graphic Novel, Astabasu, Bism