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About Witch Doctor

Vincent Morrow’s fall from grace in the medical world was swift, total, and his own damn fault.

He would’ve ended things that same night if he hadn’t been headhunted into an exciting new career — in the black arts. Then there was the matter of pulling a certain sword out of a certain stone and being declared earth’s destined protector, but he’d rather you didn’t mention that. The obedient path of mystical tradition isn’t the one for Morrow. The Holy Grail made a great sink — it just needed a hole for the plumbing and a rubber stopper in the bottom — and earth’s vampires, zombies and other superfauna are just patients to him, victims of unknown illnesses waiting to be treated.

It’s a sick world. And Dr. Morrow serves it with both hands — one in magic, one in medicine — as earth’s Sorcerer General. Earth’s Witch Doctor.

Witch Doctor is a medical horror comic from Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner, a pair of Alaskans currently based in Portland, Oregon.

Writer Brandon Seifert is a freelance journalist from Fairbanks, Alaska. Witch Doctor is his first comic.

Artist Lukas Ketner is a freelance illustrator from Anchorage, Alaska. In addition to Witch Doctor, Lukas has done comics for Dark Horse Presents/Creepy Magazine and Top Shelf’s Steal Back Your Vote (with Greg Palast and Robert Kennedy, Jr.).

Contact the Witch Doctor crew through e-mail at witchdoctorcomic@gmail.com.

  • About Witch Doctor

    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.

  • Buy Our Comic

    Witch Doctor: First Incision is
    available for purchase online through Seppuku Comics, at conventions, and in the following locations.

    Portland:

    • Floating World Comics (Old Town/Chinatown)
    • Cosmic Monkey Comics (Northeast)
    • Bridge City Comics (North)
    • Excalibur Books and Comics (Southeast)

    Elsewhere:
    • Danger Room Comics (Olympia, Washington)
    • The Comic Shop (Fairbanks, Alaska)
    • Bosco's on Spenard (Anchorage, Alaska)
  • Soundtrack

    Each issue of Witch Doctor will be accompanied by a streaming soundtrack posted here!

  • Witch Doctor Stories

      First Incision
  • Categories

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    • Concept Art (4)
    • News (38)
    • Promo Art (3)
  • Creators

    • Lukas Ketner
  • Testimonials

      "[Witch Doctor] is mental.” — Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority, Black Summer)

      "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

      "Witch Doctor is awesome. It's House, M.D. by way of H.P. Lovecraft. Witty, gross, gorgeously drawn and just plain fun." - Brett Warnock, publisher, Top Shelf

      "Any true horror fan should keep their eyes on Seifert and Ketner." - Mike Dringenberg (co-creator of The Sandman)

      "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

      "Lukas Ketner [is] a fast rising star in the world of illustration." - Publishers Weekly's The Beat

      "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

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