“Dan Schaffer has risen to a new level of excellence both in art and storytelling.  THE SCRIBBLER is brilliant."  –  Bryan Talbot.

“Beginners interested in learning a few shading techniques would be wise to pick this one up. Suki's world is a drab one that only gets darker as the Scribbler takes control. She states that the shock treatment turns her dreams colorless, and there are times when you wonder if everything going on is nothing more than her own hallucinations...” – IGN.com

"Schaffer's books all feature spunky, sexy, devil-may-care female protagonists who dish out dirtier than they get, making him essentially the Joss Whedon of the dark and dreary set. On the art front, unbridled imagination electrifies THE SCRIBBLER’S 96 black and white pages. Images coalesce and separate in often border busting paneling."   Rue Morgue Magazine

 

The plot is poetry and dub, rhythmic, distant language spilling between filthy white lace. INDIGO VERTIGO isn't so much a comic book as it is the most electrifying and heart-rending sort of trip-hop torn from the audio world and smashed defiantly onto the page. Silent music.     - Comic World News

"There's an old line that music is the form to which all other art aspires - in that it's the one which strikes the truest, as it's a pure stimulus that creates a pure reaction. There's no known reason why a note makes us feel happy or sad - but it does, unlike watching a tragedy that makes us sad because it's tragic. There's a sense that INDIGO VERTIGO understands this. Of any comic I've read this year, it's the one which most openly strives to ascend to the position of music."    - New Noize

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

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.

- Monte WIlliams - Mediasharx  

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)

Why aren't you reading Dogwitch? 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.

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.