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Release Date. United States. January 25, 1972 (New York City, New York) United States. March 20, 1972 (USA Film Festival) United States. April 12, 1972 (Los Angeles, California) United States. April 14, 1972.
Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated black comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in his directorial debut.Based on the comic strip of the same name by Robert Crumb, the film focuses on its Skip Hinnant-portrayed titular character, a glib, womanizing and fraudulent cat in an anthropomorphic animal version of New York City during the mid-to-late 1960s.
- Ralph Bakshi
- Steve Krantz
Fritz the Cat is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb. Set in a "supercity" of anthropomorphic animals, it focused on Fritz, a tabby cat who frequently went on wild adventures that sometimes involved sexual escapades. Crumb began drawing the character in homemade comic books as a child, and Fritz would become one of his best-known characters.
- Robert Crumb
- Ended
- 1978
- Robert Crumb
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Fritz the Cat (1972) - When Ralph Bakshi and Steve Krantz met with Robert Crumb at his home in San Francisco to discuss potentially adapting Crumb's Fritz the Cat comics into an animated film, Crumb generally expressed hesitancy throughout their meetings, but gave Bakshi one of his sketch books to study Crumb's art style for the film. During their last meeting, Crumb left without any ...
Fritz the Cat at 50: The X-rated cartoon that shocked the US. Ralph Bakshi's bawdy and outrageous 1972 film sparked controversy when it was released 50 years ago – changing animation forever ...
However, a 45 RPM single featuring two songs from the film, "Jump Back," and "TCB in E" was released in 1974. Both Fritz the Cat films are available on DVD through MGM Home Entertainment in the U.S., and Arrow Films in the UK as part of a DVD box set titled The Fritz the Cat Collection. Reception
A persiflage on the protest movements of the 1960s. Its hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university, Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther, and Hell's Angels scenes to find himself. — Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>.
