Transformasi Teks Cerita Rakyat Pulau Si Mardan Ke Dalam Bentuk Komik Digital

Transformation in the Great Indonesian Dictionary is defined as a change of
appearance. The transformation in literary works into other forms has implications for changes
in the form and structure of the story. Then, along with the development of the era, the people's
story became extinct and needed to be revitalized. This study aims to: (1) How the structural
elements of the Pulau Si Mardan folklore, (2) How to transform the Pulau Si Mardan folklore
text into digital comics, (3) How to develop the digital Pulau Si Mardan comic. This type of
research is qualitative research with development methods. The subject of this research is the
folklore of Pulau Si Mardan. Sources of data in this study are the results of interviews and
documents. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation.
The transformation of folklore into digital comics is carried out by specifying the folklore text
to be transformed. Then a structural analysis was carried out on the folklore text. This structural
analysis is important in research in order to obtain an optimal analysis. After carrying out
structural analysis, a transformation was carried out into digital comics. The results of the
transformation show that there is a modification category transformation process in the
structural elements of the theme, character, title, point of view and language. The
transformation of the conversion category occurs in the structural element of irony. The
transformation of the expansion category occurs in the setting and there are two transformation
processes in the plot. The process of developing comics was carried out by trials in the
community to determine product acceptance in the community and the results of the percentage
of community responses to comics showed a number of 92% with a good category.