4. CRANIUM FRENZY #1 by Steve Willis (Proof of Concept Edition) 2025 (Phoenix Productions) online store
Tom Fellrath of Phoenix Productions announced on February 4, 2025 video that he was collecting all forty issues of CRANIUM FRENZY by Steve Willis into four omnibus editions of, I'm guessing, several hundred b/w pages each. I already own every issue in physical format, except for #9 published right after I dropped out of the Obscuro comix scene, as Steve reprinted the early issues in the 90s. The last thirty issues were released in a flurry of creativity from 2022-24 after a two decade intermission.
This particular book is a free digital edition of the scans for the 1981 CRANIUM FRENZY #1 taken from Steve's photocopy masters (he didn't keep his original back then). There's a mission statement from Tom as an introduction, and a very valuable five pages of notes from Steve on the issue. The contents are pretty much the same freewheeling absurdity you expect from Willis, even at this early days stage of his comix output.
Best of luck to Tom Fellrath, he's going to need it!
Here's Tom's video introduction to this publishing project:
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