In 1978, Rick contributed two one-image panels titled "Kriturz" to Fred Greenberg's OMNIBUS, issues #1 (March - also feat. Rick Veitch, Steve Bissette, Chris Kalnick, Rod Ollernshaw, Bob Badarracco, Tom Yeates, and John Totleben.) & #2 (April - also feat. Cara Sherman, Steve Bissette, Mark DiMicco, Marilyn Bethke, Frank Cecala, Fred Greenberg & Rod Ollerenshaw, Larry Loc, Rick Fernandez, and Ernest Pasanen) digests (Last Minute Productions).

GRIMES: "Fred Greenberg's OMNIBUS was a digest or rather half-fold style book, I assume of his own creation that again included many of us at the (Kubert) school. I deliberately left it out of the list Steve Bissette used in TABOO intros, not because Fred didn't do a nice job with it, and again generously and without (probably well due, in my case) criticism. But, because I can't stand my own pieces. Both are "Kriturz", one image panels with excessively oblique text pseudodescriptions. The first comes closest to an actual creature, a real evil-looking stinker of a thing; the second little more than a design experiment overly favoring it's nicely balanced but dualistic logo over any creature content. Both were from my 'mad' phase. Hence, of painful aspect to dwell on aesthetically.

OMNIBUS #1 came out in March of '78. I gave my only copy to some guy overwhelmed with it, who went on to color my page in it, with color pencils, like a coloring book! Haven't any notion or memory when I trashed or lost its original; and have therefore not laid eyes on it in thirty years! #2 came out that summer, I guess, after my return to Shreveport. I still have its main parts, tho' pulled apart with some pages possibly missing. The books are much saner, if that's the word, than PARADE OF GORE; perhaps Fred's way of stepping back again from that. Never asked him that, or absorbed the books as I should have. I was 'otherwise occupied'.

I always liked Ernie Pasanen's 'fisherman' painting in #2; (another class cull, from our 'grey wash' assignment)? Also, in #2, on the letters page some guy described my page in #1 as an "N.E.V.", which he then 'helpfully', and inevitably, defined for us all as "No Entertainment Value". In my case, I'm inclined to agree." -- Rick Grimes (December 22, 2008).