Witch Doctor

Today’s the big day!

Brandon Seifert — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:22:51 +0000

Witch Doctor: First Incision 2010 is available for purchase at the Image Comics booth. Brandon and Lukas are available ~~for purchase~~ at the following locations:

4-5 pm: Witch Doctor at the Robert Kirkman Panel (Room 5AB)!
5-6 pm: Witch Doctor signing at the Image Comics booth (#2729)

And if you see either of these gentlemen wandering around looking confused, say hi and confuse them further!

Lukas Von Ketner IV

Brandon "The Yellowcake Kid" Seifert

WITCH DOCTOR: FIRST INCISION 2010 for sale at Comic-Con tomorrow!

Brandon Seifert — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:13:27 +0000

We kicked Witch Doctor off, back in 2008, with Witch Doctor: First Incision, a 16-page medical horror story introducing our series and featuring a decidedly different take on vampires.

First Incision 2008 was our “demo tape.” Tomorrow at Comic-Con comes Witch Doctor: First Incision 2010 — our “studio EP.” It’s still a 16 page introduction to our series, but it’s been reworked from the ground up to represent two years of growth, of Lukas and myself as creators, and as Witch Doctor as a concept.

Witch Doctor: First Incision 2010 will be on sale at the Image Comics booth (#2729) for the whole of Comic-Con. But — its fate after San Diego is uncertain! As yet there are no plans to release the new First Incision through Diamond Comic Distributors before the debut of our first miniseries in 2011, and we may well sell out of the first printing during San Diego. So get them while the getting’s good!

Also, Brandon and Lukas will be signing at the Image booth from 5 to 6 pm Thursday, following their appearance at the Robert Kirkman panel (Room 5AB) from 4 to 5 pm, where Skybound gets officially announced and fleshed out. Lukas and Brandon are also available for a limited time only at Comic-Con — one day only!

See you there?

As seen in today’s New York Times

Brandon Seifert — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:00:52 +0000

Here’s a sample of the Witch Doctor preview issue that’s going to be on sale in San Diego.

I promise to post more about all this craziness later in the day, when I’m no longer on lunch break from my day job!

When the going gets weird…

Brandon Seifert — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:04:13 +0000

Witch Doctor: Interview With The Tapeworm. For sale at San Diego Comic-Con 2010, from Skybound Entertainment, Robert Kirkman’s new imprint at Image Comics.

Color covers by Jamie (All-Star Superman, We3) Grant.

Brian Bendis is a very nice man.

Brandon Seifert — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:36:39 +0000

“Brandon Seifert is a creator to watch. The man has the stuff!!” — Brian Michael Bendis

New Witch Doctor Pin-Up

Brandon Seifert — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:52:38 +0000

Emerald City Comic Con 2010 was two weekends back, and Witch Doctor was there — with an awesome new print by Lukas!

Look for it in color at the Stumptown Comics Fest at the end of April!

A belated Happy Holidays from Witch Doctor!

Brandon Seifert — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:42:58 +0000

We hope your holidays went well, and that you find prosperity in this brave new future world of TWENTYTEN.

Lukas Ketner in Dark Horse’s Supersized: Strange Tales From a Fast-Food Culture

Brandon Seifert — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:26:29 +0000

Dark Horse released their May solicits today… and what do I spy in them?

SUPERSIZED: STRANGE TALES FROM A FAST-FOOD CULTURE
Written by Morgan Spurlock and Jeremey Barlow, art by Lukas Ketner, Tony Millionaire and Ron Chan, cover by Ron English.

Do you dare find out what’s happening behind the counters of your neighborhood fast-food joint? Then grab a bucket and dive into one of the creepiest graphic novels of the year! Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture is an entertaining‹and at times gut-wrenching‹series of stories focusing on America’s ubiquitous and potentially destructive fast-food culture. A perfect companion to Super Size Me, the graphic novel will bridge the gaps between humor, fact, and heart, while peering behind the scenes of the fast-food world.

88 pages, $12.99, in stores on May 5.

Go Lukas!

Seifert and Ketner ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ — summer 2010!

Brandon Seifert — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:31:34 +0000

Rather than staring at my screen and hitting refresh over and over and over on the live Tweeting from the Eisner Award ceremony, I think now is a good time to unveil me and Russ Manning Award Nominee Lukas Ketner’s new comics project: The next issue of the Escape From Alcatraz comic series by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy!

The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is a nonprofit that partners with the Golden Gate National Parks to produce, among other things, really clever merchandise about the parks. In 2007 they released Escape From Alcatraz: The Dummy Head Breakout (written and illustrated by Sara Ryan and Steve Lieber, our fellow Portlanders and a couple of really awesome people), the first in a line of comics detailing the 14 different escape attempts that took place while Alcatraz was a federal prison. For the second issue, they came to me and Lukas.

We’ll be telling the story of the 1946 escape attempt, the one called the “Blast-Out” of Alcatraz, or even “The Battle of Alcatraz.” It’s a really amazing, violent story — a half-dozen conspirators exploited several holes in the way Alcatraz was built and run, and managed to get a hold of weapons and free the entire inmate population… only to discover they’d misplaced the one key that’d get them out of the cellhouse building and out onto the island. It all ended in a stand-off between three armed prisoners and two platoons of Marines.

Lukas and I are really excited about telling the story — it’s got firefights, twists of fate, psychotic killers, 18-year-olds getting in over their heads, acts of heroism, acts of barbarism… and pretty much all the protagonists die. Think Reservoir Dogs with ’40s gangster slang in place of pop culture references, set in the most famous prison in the world. Think AWESOME.

The comic is going to be 22 pages, full-color, and will be available for sale in the Alcatraz gift shop probably sometime next summer.

As a side bonus, when Lukas and I went down to SF for WonderCon in February we got to go on an amazing private tour of the island. (I, personally, spent 10 hours on Alcatraz that day.) Here’s some photos I came away with.

Lukas Ketner’s CREEPY short story available in MYSPACE DARK HORSE PRESENTS Vol. 3

Brandon Seifert — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:39:59 +0000

Hey, this totally snuck up on us! Today was the release of MySpace Dark Horse Presents Vol. 3 — featuring the Creepy Comics story “Om Nom Nom” by Andrew Mayer and our own Lukas Ketner!

The story looks really pretty in print — and as an added bonus, they included a couple piece of Lukas’ concept art in the sketchbook in the back!

You should really go buy it.