Fritz the cat

Work

Comics

Fritz is the first character creates by Crumb. The author created it when he was child for a data base which he carried out with his Charles brother. Fritz was at the beginning a simple cat named Fred but while growing Crumb gave him human characteristics to lead to the final version at the time of its adolescence.

Crumb occasionally inserted autobiographical elements in the comics, in particular of the references to its own sexual mishaps. The first history appeared in the number 22 of the magazine Help in 1965. This history, entitled Fritz Comes one Strong , sees Fritz bringing back a young female at his place and to strip it to remove chips to him.

The comics was then published in several other magazines, Cavalier , Fug , and The People' S Comics . It had its first complete album in 1969.

First film

Fritz knew a renewal of popularity with the exit of first film drawn from the series, simply entitled Fritz the Cat . Realized by Ralph Bakshi and produced by Steve Krantz, this film left in 1972 is the first cartoon film classified X and reserved to the adults.

During the production, the initial distributer, the Warner Bros. Pictures, rejected the project after having viewed a few minutes of the version of work. Crumb itself rejected this animated film, which did not prevent it from being a great critical success and générationnel.

The death of Fritz

The rejection of Crumb compared to this film went until him to inspire a new episode of Fritz in which it kills its character.

In the history Fritz the Cat Superstar published in 1972, Fritz east depicts like a star of Hollywood arrogant and exploited by its producers and his agent (caricaturing Bakshi and Krantz). Whereas it leads on Sunset Boulevard, Fritz is called by a fan lapine who asks him to violate it. Later in the history, after having met a former friend ostrich, Fritz her apartment leaves when suddenly it receives a blow of ice pick in the back. Fritz died.

Second film

The death of Fritz on paper did not prevent the exit of a second film: The Nine Lives off Fritz the Cat . Left in 1974, this continuation still produced by Krantz but directed this time by Robert Taylor (always without the downstream of Crumb) had neither quality nor the success of first film.

Publications

Fritz Comes one Strong - published initially in Help! # January 22nd, th and th 1965
Fred, the Teen-Old Girl Pigeon - published initially in Help! # May 24th, th and th 1965
Fritz Bugs Out - initially published in Riding , 1968
Fritz the Cat - initially published in R. Crumb' S Head Comix, 1968.
Fritz the No-Good - initially published in Riding , September October 1968
Untitled - creates in 1964, initially published in R. Crumb' S Comics & Stories , 1969
Fritz the Cat, Special Agent for the C.I.A. - creates in March/May 1965; initially published in R. Crumb' S Fritz the Cat , 1969.
Fritz the Cat, Magician - creates in 1965; published initially in Promethean Enterprises #3, 1971.
Fritz the Cat: " Superstar" - published initially in The People' S Comics , 1972.

External bonds

Fritz the Cat (nonofficial site)
Fritz on the site Toonopedia

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