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 [...]
Lukas just got interviewed by Comic Book Resources about the Creepy Magazine comic he did for MySpace Dark Horse Presents. In the interview he talks about Witch Doctor a little, and gives you a glimpse behind the scenes of how he went from self-publishing First Incision with me to how he got to do [...]
Publishers Weekly’s comics blog The Beat did a piece about Lukas today, in connection with his nomination for the Russ Manning Award — and called him “a fast rising star in the world of illustration”! I must admit, we’re pretty stoked about that.
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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
"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