About Midnight Fiction Comix

Midnight Fiction Comix and Reviews

Richard Krauss is the creative farce behind the Midnight Fiction website. Back in the day, Midnight Fiction was the name of my first small press comix. Back then I was a small part of the newave comix scene. Now MidnightFiction.com collects most of my cartoon work with a little backstory thrown in for good measure.

The site is updated every Saturday. I've made a serious commitment to keeping things fresh, so please bookmark the site and revisit it often. I promise there will be new content every week. You can count on it.

Updates typically include a new cartoon, review, and blog entry. All of the new material appears on the home page and is simultaneously published on a permanent page (under Comix, Reviews, or Blog). So if you want to link to content that won't move, use the permanent page location.

For now, the weekly cartoons feature comix I drew during my newave comics days, but I've begun cartooning again and intend to eventually feature new material. My current projects in development include pages for Dan W. Taylor's Time Warp Comix and Jim Main's Satyr.

Thanks very much for visiting the site. Please make it a part of your regular surfing. If you have any comments, suggestions, or requests, I'd love to hear from you!

Bob Vojtko Zinography Link

Bob Vojtko's wonderful comix and cartoons have entertained readers since the seventies. Bob was a big part of the newave comix scene. His work was published by Clay Geerdes, George Erling, Everyman Studios, Jabberwocky Graphix, and many others during those early days of mini comics. With the help of his wife Sue, he also published over a dozen of his own books under the Vojtkomics Productions banner. More recently, Bob's cartoons have been published in the Hustler Humor, Harvard Business Review, Nickelodeon Magazine, Highlights for Children, The Lutheran, and Woman's World.

Midnight Fiction's spotlight on Bob Vojtko includes a comprehensive index of his published work and a few weeks worth of his short-lived syndicated comic strip Suzy.

Interview with Joe Wehrle Jr. Link

Joe Wehrle Jr. is an artist, writer, and musician. Joe has written and illustrated several books including Pearls of Peril (BLB), Stovepipe, and Drawn by Wehrle (portfolio). His work has been published in Two-Gun Raconteur, Vampirella, The Menomonee Falls Gazette, and many other publications. Through his Pencil Portrait studio he offers custom illustrated portraits at reasonable rates.

Midnight Fiction's spotlight on Joe Wehrle Jr. includes an interview, an index of his published work, and a short story featuring his famous feline, Cauliflower Catnip in a special Christmas adventure.

Interview with
DC McNamara Link

When DC McNamara first saw Morty the Dog comix in a comic shop, it was an eye-opening experience. Once he saw what could be done he was inspired to start drawing his own comix. Since then he's self-published over a dozen issues of his own mini comix with titles like Mox Nix, You're Not Creepy At All, and Bigfoot Comix. He also started the Mini-Comix Co-op, a website where cartoonists can trade copies of their comix with other self-publishers. Our spotlight on DC Mcnamara includes an interview conducted in January 2008 and a Zinography of his published work.

Interview with Doc Boucher Link

"Doc" Boucher is the leader of Inter-Fan, an organization formed to support Comic Fandom and to record and preserve its history.

Spotlight on Steve Willis Link

Steve Willis was one of the most prominent cartoonists of the newave comix era. He published over 200 of his own small press comics, many featuring Morty the Dog. In the early 80s he created 1000 one-of-a-kind mini comix originals called Morty Comix to send out with his correspondence. In 1991 he revived Bruce Chrislip's City Limits Gazette, editing and publishing the bi-weekly newsletter for nearly three years.

Midnight Fiction's spotlight on Steve Willis is a recap of the interview conducted by Chelsea Baker at the Olympia Comics Festival on June 7, 2008.

Other Zinographies

MidnightFiction.com also hosts and links to other Zinographies of select cartoonists and illustrators such as Brad W. Foster, Rick McCollum, Dave Miller, John Porcellino, and Michael Roden. Collaborating with Rick Bradford, who runs the Poopsheet Foundation website, we're working to add more indexes of newave, mini-comic, and small press comic creators' published works to our sites.

The Michael Roden Benefit Portfolio

MidnightFiction.com
Milestones

2006
10-21 MF.com goes live
11-26 100th visitor

2007
02-24 Spotlight on
02-24.Bob Vojtko
07-28 Midnight Fiction
07-08 Shop opens
09-08 2008 Desk
09-08 Calendar
09-22 Blog begins
10-20 First anniversary &
10-20 Media Report Comix
11-10 100th Review
12-22 Spotlight on
12-21 Joe Wehrle Jr.

2008
02-09 Interview with
12-21 DC McNamara &
12-21 Bug Infested 12-21 12-21 Comics #5
03-01 Spotlight on
12-21 Michael Roden
03-11 10,000th visitor
03-16 100th page added
05-12 Interview with
12-21 Doc Boucher
07-12 Spotlight on
12-21 Steve Willis