This research aims at finding out whether or not the use of graphic novel as media is effective for teaching reading comprehension to the eleventh graders at SMA N 2 Semarang. Quasi experimental research was applied as the method with two groups: experimental and control group. The total subject of this research was 72 students which were taken from two classes of XI MIPA 3 as control group and XI MIPA 1 as experimental group. Face and content validity were done by asking the English teacher and lecturer to be expert judgements to validate the instrument by using a rubric appearance of test of face validity and its conformity by curriculum as a content validity. Inter-rater reliability in giving scores to the students was done to measure the reliability of the test. Thus, research use SPSS in analyzing the data of test through several activities. They were pre-test before treatments and post-test after treatment. The result of this research shows the significant difference in the reading ability of graphic novel between eleventh-graders who were taught by using graphic novel as media and those were not taught by using it. It can be seen in the result of mean score in the post-test of experimental class which is 76.03and control class which is 6.44 and as a result, Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.00 < 0.05. therefore, the null hypothesis of this study is rejected. It means that the use of graphic novel as a media has significantly improved the eleventh-graders’ reading ability of class at SMA N 2 Semarang in the academic year 2021/2022.

Keywords: Graphic Novel, Reading Comprehension.