"Being-in-the-world" remind us of existential philosophies which
have their methodological foundation in phenomenology. In this case, the
material taken for phenomenological study is the extremely popular
comic-cartoon in the Jakarta daily newspaper POSKOTA, read by
workers in the informal sector, the majority of simple people with small
incomes and no labour - protection, probably with some elementary
school education. The hero named DOYOK appears in a series of 6
pictures.
The cartoon-comics is a combination of humorous drawing-cartoon
as a from of social comment presented as a series of pictures-comics
with caricatural content, implying some measure of distortion. 114
cartoon-comics between 31/12/1988 and 2?/11/1989 are chosen which
were listed according to the elements constituting the humor of this
cartoons following the theory proposed by A. Koestler (Act of Creation,
Picador, 1978).
