If you look at theatre, poetry, they have gone ahead. Why are we doing it? We want to publish and to tell stories about ourselves as a country. This will give us a sense of the cost to edit, publish, paying the rent and employees. So it’s hard to know the real cost of publishing. We were not sure whether it’s real, the success, because it’s done as part of the design company.
Along the way, we did The Diary of Amos Lee, which was very successful. One or two books a year and that’s part of Epigram the design company. Before that, we also did some publishing on an ad hoc basis. “We set up Epigram Books over a year ago. It promotes the traditional wayang characters in a new way of visualization and storyline, with the usage of ‘batik’ pattern on panels and effect.Did not manage to catch the Epigram panel at STGCC, but I went down to Epigram Books the next day to have a chat with Edmund, the boss.
“Garudayana” is the manga-meets-wayang comic book. Eventhough some of those characters are also found in other country’s legend, Indonesia has its distinctive points that differentiate it from the same character in other country. like Garuda, Gatotkaca, the Punakawan Trio, Semar and the Pandavas. What differentiates “Garudayana” from other comic books are the characters, which are taken from the Mahabharata wayang (Wayang is a traditional Indonesian puppet show). A treasure hunter, Kinara, who first discovered the Garuda, and a band of other friends are also there to see to it that he comes to no harm. But little Garuda is not alone in facing his enemies.
The life of the mythical fledgling is in constant danger, as the story goes that eating a Garuda brings everlasting life. “Garudayana” (means ‘the tale of Garuda’) chronicles the adventures of a newborn, Garuda, as he journeys to meet his elders. Award : Lollipop Award Winner 2010 in category ‘Reader’s Favourite Comic’ from XY Kids Magazine.
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