Tita Larasati
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| Born | 1972  Jakarta |
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| Occupation | Cartoonist, industrial designer |
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Dr. Dwinita Larasati (born December 28, 1972),[1] who also uses the diminutive Tita Larasati, is an Indonesian industrial designer and cartoonist. She is a lecturer in industrial design at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)[2] and her design work focuses on sustainability and the use of bamboo. As an artist and publisher, she is a pioneer in the "graphic diary" genre of autobiographical Indonesian comics.[3]
Biography
Larasati was born in Jakarta and studied at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung.[4] She earned a master's degree from the Design Academy Eindhoven and a doctorate from the Delft University of Technology in 2007.
She began drawing in 1995 while on a design internship in Germany in order to keep in touch with her family. She later said “I was too lazy to write" so she began faxing them autobiographical comics which were photocopied and given to family and friends by her mother.[5]
After her return to Indonesia, she co-founded Curhat Anak Bangsa ("Outpouring of a Nation") with Rony Amandi in 2008, which published graphic diary comics by herself and other women like Sheila Rooswitha Putri and Azisa Noor. Four of Larasati's graphic diary works were published by CAB: Curhat Tita (Tita Tells Her Stories), Transition, Back in Bandung, and Kidstuff.[6] Back in Bandung was the first Indonesian comic book translated into another language,[7] published in French as Retour à Bandung in 2016 by Editions çà et là.[4] Many of her works center on her struggles as an expatriate in Europe and returning to Indonesia after a lengthy absence. She has been cited as a key female Indonesian comics artist who has not been influenced by Japanese manga.[6]
Larasati is the general secretary and one of the founders of the Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF).[5][8] She is also chair of the Bandung Creative Economy Committee.[8]
References
- ^ "Tita". lambiek.net. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ Perdani, Yuliasri (November 2, 2015). "BookWORM: Tita Larasati: A trilogy that inspires daughter's name". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ Ogi, Fusami (2019), Ogi, Fusami; Suter, Rebecca; Nagaike, Kazumi; Lent, John A. (eds.), "How Women's Manga Has Performed the Image of ASIAs, Globally and Locally", Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond, Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, Springer International Publishing, pp. 95–122, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97229-9_7, ISBN 9783319972282, S2CID 159401888
- ^ a b "Just Published, French Edition of "Back in Bandung" - Islands of Imagination". islandsofimagination.id. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ a b WIRA, NI NYOMAN (September 24, 2016). "Creative ideas, knowledge attract festivalgoers in Jakarta". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ a b Lent, John A. Asian Comics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781626740853. OCLC 881592441.
- ^ RAHMIASRI, MASAJENG (August 13, 2016). "Indonesian artists to join French comic festival". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- ^ a b "Dr. Dwinita Larasati « Asean Creative Cities". Archived from the original on 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.