Some artists think that having hot babe eye-candy is sufficient to carry any old crap comics' storyline. Fortunately, Daniel Schaffer understands that such fuckwit reasoning spells disaster. Which is why his Dogwitch, who is of course hornier than a hellcat on heat, doesn't just look the business, she does the business - in spades.

This volume collects together the early adventures of the outcast sorceress, whose only pals are psychic living doll and a chain-smoking, stuffed toy mutt. Banished to the backwaters of the Banewoods for throwing the rulebook on the fire, the mistress of "Molotov Magic" lives out her days hell-bent on fucking with the structure of reality and trying to get laid, filming every diabolically sordid adventure for future sale at the local video store.

Mirroring his creation, Schaffer screws with genre conventions by mainlining them with a massive dose of humour. The deliriously original result is a twisted hybrid of The Evil Dead 2 and a gothic porn flick - kinky, cool, and plain bust-a-gut crazy.  

Kerrang! Magazine.

You need to buy this book! DOGWITCH has the best black and white drawings in the world. It has the most beautiful, heart-biting, demon-humping woman to grace the pages in comics. It's good, compelling writing that transcends it's kinky inspirations. It's a chanting porcelain doll and a trash talkin' plush dog. It's polka-dotted panties and Ouija Monkeys. Do I need to go on? Maybe I'll mention the age reducing Needleman, Violet undressing to strangers, high heeled boots in snow, and Spitting Nails. This book will be a classic and will grace book shelves for a long, long time. Go buy this book. You need to buy this book. (Rating: 10 out of 10)

Dogwitch#1  - The talented ones, sometimes they just sneak up on you. Sure you have newcomers to comics like Novelist Greg Rucka and filmmaker Kevin Smith, immensely gifted storytellers who exploded on the four-color scene with new concepts and characters, but to be honest, they had the opportunity to polish their craft in other mediums. No, we're talking about storytellers like British export Daniel Schaffer, whose Dogwitch #1 is offered in this months Previews (AUG 2002).  As if out of thin air, Sirius Entertainment has brought this comic book prodigy to the forefront, a storyteller who has created a fiendishly funny sex romp and horror pastiche that surpasses the work of many more experienced creators today.

Phantom Zone

Sometimes when a publisher is quiet for a while, it just means that they are building up their war chest. And it appears that this is exactly what Sirius Entertainment has been doing. This month brings us the series debut of Dogwitch, another really strong title by a total unknown (following on the high heels of good girl book, Banzai Girl). Written and illustrated by British newcomer Daniel Schaffer, Dogwitch is a book for the Goth crowd; a book for the good girl crowd; but it is so much more. Once you meet Violet Grimm, the anti-Barbie, she won't be easy to forget. How many others do you know who would raise the dead for a quick one-night stand? Be sure to closely watch the career of Daniel Schaffer, he has a ton of talent. And watch Dogwitch, it could very well be one of the sleeper hits of the year. 

Previews

A natural visual storyteller, Schaffer moves from panel to panel with an effortlessness that belies just how much work it must take to create such images. What truly grabs me, however, is Schaffer’s love of Violet’s body, that elegant style of his capturing her rude, dark beauty with such force and clarity that you can almost smell her formaldehyde perfume.

Broken Frontier

So, anyone remember way back when I said this book was bound to be a comic classic? Well this book just cinched that more than ever. Here's the thing, most comics made these days aren't going to be worth spit down the road, but DOGWITCH is certainly bound to be one of those few exceptions. There are relatively small printing numbers on these first few issues, but this book is already developing a rabid reading audience that's only going to continue to grow. While most books will often follow trends, DOGWITCH is one of those rare reads that's bound to set a few.

Comixview

The adventures of a porn/snuff/reality TV witch as filmed by a doll and a cuddly toy dog. Extremely original, extremely clever at times, featuring great dialogue and incredible art. An artist and writer with this level of skill should not be ignored...oh and as the man himself says, it's also kinky and that's no bad thing in my book . 

Silver Bullet Comics

DOGWITCH is the kind of book that should be approached on no sleep and begun with issue #13. Daniel Schaffer would likely agree with me. In his essay which opens the book, he dismisses our perceptions as unreliable at best: "By the time you ‘know’ what’s going on around you, you’ve already fucked it up beyond all recognition." I took my cue from this suggestion and just let the fun, relentlessly creative and silly momentum of DOGWITCH roll right on over me. I’ll concede right now that while I went into this book expecting brain-dead tits-and-ass, I was won over by the essay before I even took a look at the story, so maybe I’m biased in Daniel Schaffer’s favor. He says at one point that you need only follow his suggestions to make the world a better place, adding, "Trust me. I write kinky comic books. I know stuff." 

It can't be helped. I love this man. 

I enjoy the goofy, manic pace of Daniel Schaffer’s writing, and the confidence and style of his black and white artwork. His work is funny and self-aware and entertaining, and... well... Dolores says at one point, "We need to be a big, fat, ugly, smiley-faced beacon of weirdness shining through the Banewoods.” 

If the comic book industry is the Banewoods, then DOGWITCH is a big, fat, ugly, smiley-faced beacon of weirdness shining through it.

Mediasharx

This isn't what it looks like... or rather, it isn't JUST what it looks like. DOGWITCH is a very funny, extremely violent story of one young woman's search for the ideal man, employing zombies, a giant bunny suit, and a dog with a camera.

Savant