A comic strip is a picture or series of pictures that contains a story. Comic
strips are written and drawn by a cartoonist. Comic strips can be used as a
medium to improve students' writing skills, especially for writing narrative texts.
Narrative text is one type of text that tells about a series of events chronologically
and connected to each other. The nature of narrative text is imaginative or in the
form of a fictitious story that has the aim of entertaining the reader. This study
aims to find out which comic strips used by 8th grade students of SMPN 1 Padang
Batung can improve their writing skills in narrative text. This research is a
qualitative descriptive study by analyzing the results of student writing using
comic strips as a supporting medium. Researchers collect written documents from
the results of short stories written by students, analyze the words, phrases, and
sentences they write and make analysis. After being analyzed, the researcher
found an increase in writing narrative text using comic strips compared to without
using it.