He was still a teenager in his “pre-psychedelic period” when he created the character Fritz the Cat with his big brother Charles. Robert Crumb practically invented the DIY print culture for magazines and graphic novels. We never would have heard fart jokes on Nickelodeon. Bloom County’s Bill the Cat never would have coughed up a hairball hit. Without Crumb, Harvey Pekar would never find his American Splendor. Dez Skinn who wrote Comix: The Underground Revolution, said Fritz the Cat inspired Omaha the Cat Dancer. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book in 1998.Ĭrumb is one of the most influential comic artists ever and Fritz is his most influential character. Further previously unpublished Fritz stories appeared in The R. In April 1993, Fantagraphics Books’ The Life & Death of Fritz the Cat compiled nine strips and included a 1964 story that wasn’t included in The Complete Fritz the Cat. Bélier Press put out all the published in The Complete Fritz the Cat in In 1978. 3 & 4 came out in 1971 and Artistic in 1973. Ballantine Books compiled three Fritz stories in 1969. Younger generations caught them after they were collected. Natural, Fritz the Cat was his most popular character. Crumb the graphic novel Big Yum Yum Book: The Story of Oggie and the Beanstalk, which he drew in 1964, but didn’t come out until 1975.Īfter Mr. Crumb Draws the Blues, where he drew stories from the lives of twenties bluesmen The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Natural, Flakey Foont, Angelfood McSpade, Eggs Ackley and that Keep on Truckin’ guy in comics, They grew to the mainstream in collected works books like Kafka, R. Crumb was one of the pioneers of underground comics, creating classic characters like Mr. I applauded the anal antics happening in the lower intestines with the Snoid and fell in love with Devil Girl. I was fascinated by the drawings, the humor, the sex. Among about a dozen Archies, Fantastic Four, Cracked, and Mad, which was my comic of choice, issues, there were maybe three dozen underground comics and a bag of National Lampoons and the crème de la Crumb. It came in one of two brown paper shopping bags filled with comic books my grandfather found.
His first was the second film he pitched to producer Steve Krantz, a crazy idea very loosely based on a 1969 collection of the Fritz the Cat comic strips by Robert Crumb. They passed on the film which would become his second cult classic. He pitched Warner Brothers an inner-city street life script called Heavy Traffic.
Bakshi had just come off drawing Heckle and Jeckle and other early morning classics for Terrytoons and was looking to direct his first feature. No joke, Fritz the Cat was made for $850,000 and bagged $90 million.įritz the Cat was written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. But Fritz the Cat from 1972 was the first commercially animated feature film to capitalize on the X rating it snagged from the Motion Picture Association of America to sell tickets. Heavy Metal from 1981, South Park: Bigger, Louder, and Uncut from 1999 and A Scanner Darkly from 2006 had R-ratings. Recently, Sausage Party was touted for its R rating but, aside from the CGI tech, this is nothing new. Fritz tasted life to the fullest and, at the end of that picture Fritz the Cat, his heart cries out in this hungry, tortured, wrecked quest for more. This cat had riches and fame and adventure. He fought many a good man and laid many a good woman. He’d been up and down the four corners of this big old world, seen it all and done it all. Fritz was a cat whose soul was tormented.
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Hey, you fucking intellectuals and geeks, you think you’re so where it’s at? Hey, yeah, the movie was set in the 1960s.
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