To load the viewer for First Incision, Witch Doctor’s “demo” issue, click the thumbnails below. Once the viewer opens, you can navigate back and forth through the pages.
(You’re encouraged to listen to the soundtrack, which you can find in the menu bar to the right — it’ll keep playing as you flip through the pages!)
If you’re in Portland on Free Comic Book Day (Saturday, May 2), stop by Cosmic Monkey Comics. Witch Doctor’s Brandon Seifert is going to be signing comics there from noon to 3 pm, along with lots of other awesome local creators — like Jeff Parker, Farel Dalrymple, and Witch Doctor allies Joshua Williamson and Adam Watson!
Also, Witch Doctor: First Incision got a nice review from the folks at Comics Should Be Good, which was a pleasant thing for us to wake up to today.
Hey folks!
Should’ve mentioned this sooner, better late than never: Lukas and I are exhibiting at the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend, here in our very own Portland, Oregon. We’re pretty much right when you walk in the door, so you’ll probably have trouble missing us.
And we have new things for you. Ooh, exciting things! Like what? Like a new comic!
And for those of you who can’t make it — here’s a preview of the first page, the one we posted the pencils and graytones for!
Lukas sent me the graytoned pages for our imminent Witch Doctor: New Strains Fig. 1 today. And of course I want to share.
For First Incision, Lukas used a pretty standard process — pencil the pages, and then ink them. This time around, he’s trying something different, the technique he used on his MySpace Dark Horse Presents story. He did the pencils normally — but then he scanned them in and did graytones over them, and now he’s printing them out and doing the inking over them. This, right here, is what it looks like with just pencils and graytones — so picture inks on top of this.
This is the first page of the story, just so we don’t give too much away.
What do you think?
We just launched the official WItch Doctor Twitter account today. It’s probably the easiest way to keep up with Witch Doctor news and tidbits of information about the project — plus, we’ll be posting links to weird medicine and biology!
Incidentally — are you Witch Doctor’s MySpace friend?
Back in January me and Lukas did an interview with Scott Davis of the website PDX Comic Geek.
A very long interview.
Scott was kind of at a loss with what to do with it (it would’ve taken a really long time to transcribe, for one thing), and ended up releasing it as a podcast on his website. Be aware that it’s really long and involved, and it’s really just the three of us talking — nobody was in “radio mode,” so we’re all really chill and not worrying about sounding interesting to a listening audience. But damn, there’s a lot of information in there, so Witch Doctor fans should definitely check it out!
It's a sick world.
Literally -- the universe is an organism, and the creatures of myth and folklore are invading parasites, preying on the native species and disrupting the ordered systems of the world.
It's a sick world, and Dr. Vincent Morrow's here to treat it. Headhunted into an exciting new career in the black arts after his excommunication from the medical community, Morrow serves the world with both hands -- one in magic, one in medicine -- as earth's protector. Earth's Witch Doctor.
Witch Doctor: First Incision is a 16-page medical horror comic introducing the Witch Doctor universe, written by Brandon Seifert and illustrated by Lukas Ketner.
Portland:
Each issue of Witch Doctor will be accompanied by a streaming soundtrack posted here!
"One guy I'm real excited about is Lukas Ketner... [Witch Doctor is] a great book, and they [Seifert and Ketner] have a lot of talent.” - Scott Allie, Dark Horse Senior Mangaging Editor
"There should be more horror comics like Witch Doctor. It's got the gross outs, and the cool characters, but it has ideas, too. It's a horror comic where they got a good artist and then thought, 'Oh man, what if we got a good writer too?' And that puts them a big leg up." - Joey Comeau, A Softer World
"I was instantly reminded of a childhood spent reading classic horror comics like Creepy and Eerie... [Seifert and Ketner's] real-world medical/zoological approach is really intriguing!" — Vampire bat biologist Bill Schutt (Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures)
"Witch Doctor is brilliant! A prescription for what's ailing comics today -- a dose of good storytelling." - Jimmie Robinson, creator of Bomb Queen
"EC art crossed with Buffy-funny writing. I feel better already! Thanks, Doc!" - Lea Hernandez, Killer Princesses and Rumble Girls
"The kind of comics we need more of... If you're not reading Witch Doctor, I have no recourse but to seriously question your taste in comics." - Rantz Hoseley, creator of Vix!, Displaced Petsons and editor of Comic Book Tattoo
"The comic book I'm most looking forward to this year... Lukas Ketner's art is fantastic and Brandon Seifert's writing is fucking brilliant. I can't wait to see where they go with this book." - Mark Sweeney, colorist of Warren Ellis' Black Summer
