It’s 2008+1 day, and WitchDoctorComic.com is live… though not quite ready for the public! Witch Doctor is a new comic coming in 2008, drawn by Lukas Ketner and written by me, Brandon Seifert. It’s a hospital horror story — a medical drama spliced with urban dark fantasy. Hellboy meets House M.D. The “witch doctor” of [...]
Inspired by, among other projects, Zuda Comics’ High Moon, I’ve decided to start a workblog in this space. I’m halfway through the second draft of the script for our first issue. I can tell you it’s about vampires. I can also tell you it’s about vampires as you’ve never seen them before — and when [...]
Things are moving along. Lukas and I will be releasing Witch Doctor: First Incision, our 16-page ‘demo’, at the fifth annual Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, Oregon on April 26 and 27. We’ll be holding an official release party the next week, on Thursday, May 1st. And a week or two after that, we’ll be [...]
I posted Lukas’ sketch of our vampire as a bulletin on the Witch Doctor MySpace the other day — and MySpace kindly deleted it for us. “We had to remove an image (or images) from your account because they violated our Terms of Use,” said the message they sent us. “Our site is for people [...]
To go along with the online release of First Incision, here’s the text piece I did for the back of the print version. I swear to God, all we wanted was a portfolio piece. Not a brain infection. A portfolio piece is all Witch Doctor: First Incision was supposed to be for me and Lukas. [...]
It’s 1:30 in the morning here in Portland. Witch Doctor: First Incision has been online for 24 hours. In that time we’ve had 360 people read our comic (pretty good for a site that averaged 10-15 people a day!), we’ve gotten written about on a local media blog and SFFWorld, plugged by comics creator Eric [...]
Saturday, June 7 (tomorrow!) is the 2008 Olympia Comics Festival in Olympia, Washing — and Witch Doctor will be there! I’m actually here already. Olympia’s one of the place that’s near and dear to my heart (because it’s very, very strange), and Lukas will be joining me tomorrow. We’ve only got 20 copies of the [...]
Rantz Hoseley, creator of Vix!, Displaced Persons and editor of Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo anthology from Image, had some very kind things to say about Witch Doctor Witch Doctor is the kind of comics we need more of: Witty, self-aware, intelligent stories that acknowledge where comics have been while confidently striding into the future. [...]
I’d like to take a minute to give Lukas Ketner, Witch Doctor‘s artist, a couple of high fives. He recently collaborated on a teaser piece for the new Creepy Magazine from Dark Horse Comics along with writer Andrew Mayer, and the story is now available for free on MySpace Dark Horse Presents, the awesome online [...]