Tatang Suhenra adalah salah seorang komikus legendaris Indonesia yang terkenal dengan karya komiknya berupa komik silat, komik cerita Punakawan, dan komik religius. Komik-komik karya Tatang Suhenra menjadi benda koleksi yang bernilai tinggi karena dapat terus dikonsumsi saat komik Indonesia sulit bersaing pada periode 1980-an menjadi daya tarik utama yang menarik untuk dikaji lebih dalam. Aspek visual story telling komik Tatang Suhenra dikaji menggunakan teori Scott McCloud. Adapun hasil penelitian ini mengerucut pada pemanfaatan konten dan konteks lokal secara kreatif dari target pembacanya sebagai salah satu ciri kekhasan karya Tatang Suhenra selain pemilihan tokoh serta penokohan yang teliti dan konsisten. Hasil penelitian ini dapat digunakan sebagai acuan pembuat komik untuk mengatasi persaingan komik Indonesia dengan komik mancanegara
Kata kunci: Analisis teks, Komik, Komikus, Indonesia, visual storytelling.

Tatang Suhenra is one of Indonesian comic artists who published various themes such as martial arts comics, Punakawan comics, and religious comics. His works become valuable collection items because they still continue to be found during 1980's, when Indonesia was difficult to compete in such creativity. This case is interesting to be examined in detail. Furthermore, the visual story aspect of this Tatang Suhenra's comic is observed by using Scott MsCloud theory. This study will depict the visual storytelling style of Tatang Suhenra through text analysis towards observation of his published artworks and literature study. By analyzing his artworks, we find that Tatang Suhenra elaborates creatively local content and local context of his readers' world besides carefully designs the characters and characterization. The results of this study can be used as a reference for making Indonesian comic to tackle comic competition in global world.
Keywords: Comic, Comic Artist, Creative Process, Framing Analysis, Visual Storytelling