Uy! Comics debuts Segovia Solutions in Komikon

©Jerald Uy

Two years ago, I took this shot from my cellphone camera, on a makeshift graveyard for journalists down south. Yes, that is a real news vehicle, crushed and buried deep in the ground.


Being among the few Manila-based reporters who witnessed the bodies of  57 (another one is still missing) people being dug out. Everyone who saw the crime scene itself has the responsibility to let the people know of the problem of impunity in the country. No one is above the law, they say, but until now, more than a hundred suspects roam free after the massacre. The list of journalists being assassinated has not stopped even after Nov. 23, 2009.


Journalists being killed on a regular basis, for most people I'm afraid, have become a recurring plot that they set aside.

On my part, I aimto reach a different group of people, mostly teenagers and twentysomethings who may have been stereotyped for their fond of big-eyed characters and hyper-muscled heroes. With the help of Singapore-based artist Tin Manasan and former Philippine Collegian artist Jether Amar, we created the comic series, "Segovia Solutions. " 

Press release

The Maguindanao Massacre. The M/V Princess of the Stars Tragedy. The havoc of the Tropical Storm Ondoy. If super heroes walked the earth, would the Philippines have a different history?

This is the question the comic series Segovia Solutions aims to address as back-to-back tragedies in the past decade force the re-emergence of super heroes in an alternate world, at a time when the country's sunshine industry lies heavily on information.

Segovia Solutions tells the story of a call center that feeds technical support to superhumans handpicked to deal with recurring ills of the country. The first issue focuses on the killings of journalists and is partly based on the writer's experience in covering the Maguindanao Massacre.

Grab a copy of Segovia Solutions at Komikon: The Philippine Comicbook Convention on November 19, 2011 at Bayanihan Center, Unilab Compound in Pasig City.

About Segovia Solutions

Segovia Solutions is a small print comics series written by Jerald Uy with rotating artworks from Jether Amar, Cristine Manasan and Val Calma. The series centers on a call center's attempt to provide superhuman solutions amid back-to-back tragedies in the Philippines in the late 2000s.

About Uy! Comics

Uy! Comics is a group of Filipino small print comics creators who aim to produce quality graphic fiction set in the Philippines.

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