The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, Robert Crumb
In English, 96 pages in black and white, softcover , 20.32 x 26.9 cm. Fantagraphics, February 2026
The iconic comic strips that started it all, making R. Crumb famous -- against his will.
Robert Crumb's first iconic character--and possibly even the most iconic--was Fritz the Cat: the horny, drugged, hipster feline whose wild adventures and sexual escapades captivated countercultural audiences from the mid-'60s until 1972, when Ralph Bakshi turned the comic book into an adult animated film that Crumb hated so much that he killed the character and never but returned to it.
The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat contains all of Fritz's stories, from the first sketchbook tales ("Hey, Ol' Cat!" and "Fritz Comes On Strong") to the stories of wild adventures ("Special Agent for the C.I.A.") and Fritz's classic 'heyday' stories ("Fritz the No-Good"), to the desperate "Fritz the Cat, Superstar", with its infamous ending with an ice pick.
