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Monday, 2 November 2020
Yogyakarta, November 2nd 2020—Center for Digital Society held Digital Discussion #38 titled “Everything You Need to Know About Starting a Webcomic on Sunday night. In this event CfDS invited Desprofit Satriantomo, the author of “Baper” at Line Webtoon as the speaker. The event started at 7 pm and was moderated by Devia Putri Maharani, an event assistant at CfDS.
As usual, the moderator started by elaborating the group rules and introducing the speaker. Next, the moderator asked a question about why people choose webcomics over printed comics in this digital age. Most people said that webcomics are more simple, interesting, and eye catching. From the view of the creator, the main aim of webcomic is to make it easier for readers and to invite more consumers. According to Desprofit, from the creative process side, there are no fundamental differences between webcomic and conventional comics. There are several comic artists that draw digitally but distribute their comics through printed media, such as Rosalina Lintang (Instagram account: lintankleen) a comic artist of “Scrambled”. Rosalina Lintang feels that having a physical comic that we can hold gives more satisfaction and pride. “Here, all of us are comics aficionados, making and reading comics is supposed to be fun so we have to enjoy both,” Desprofit said. read more