BEFORE METHODOLOGY: IN CASE OF VIUSAL ARTBASED RESEARCH IN STUDYING COMICS ART

One of the cultures that emerged since late nineteenth century is comics. The amusement of comics seems to invite more people � young or adult � to be immersed into the world of comics. Studying visual art is an intriguing task, especially if taking underrated subject matter from a popular visual culture media such as comics. Articulating the expression of contemporary comics is not a lucid task. The understanding of the art of comics can help public awareness to go beyond the initial appreciation of drawings and stories it contains. This paper gives an conceptual overview on a way of studying comics, it task is to propose on how to manage pacing in research by using art-based research methodology. We discuss first on the paradigm for art and design research ontology and epistemology before methodology. Along with the study steps on collecting data by using content analysis qualitatively, followed by generate a visual semiotics analysis for seeking into its visual representasion the drawing in itself, then finally offering an alternate method on phenomenology of reading the pictorial as lived-experiences. . It is important yet meaningful to understand how comics invite its readers into its world which researcher should involve and take part as a reader by experience the reading moments as first-person perspective prereflectively

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