THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FRITZ THE CAT

Robert Crumb's first (and still possibly his most) iconic character was Fritz the Cat: the horny, high, hipster feline whose wild adventures and sexual escapades captivated counter cultural audiences from the mid-’60s until 1972, when Ralph Bakshi turned the strips into an X-rated animated film that Crumb hated so much, he famously killed off the character and never returned to him. All the Fritz stories from the earliest sketchbook-drawn tales ("Hey, Ol' Cat!" and "Fritz Comes On Strong") to the wild adventure stories ("Special Agent for the C.I.A.") to the classic "peak" Fritz stories ("Fritz the No-Good") all the way to "Fritz the Cat, Superstar" with its infamous ice pick ending! Introduction by Crumb, sketchbook pages, and more. "One of the world's greatest cartoonists ever." — Art Spiegelman "The intimacy of Robert Crumb's work has fascinated me for more than half my life." — KAWS "The most monolithic visual prankster of the last century." — Lena Dunham