A sharp first printing of this collection.

Robert Crumb's first great character was Fritz the Cat, the horny hip-talking, feline, whose success (especially after the release of the 1972 Ralph Bakshi animated movie, which Crumb loathed). This contains eight key Fritz stories from "Fritz Bugs Out" and "Special Agent for the C.I.A." to "Fritz the Cat, Superstar," with its infamous ice-pick ending.

Just Fritz!

From the publisher:

Created by an adolescent R. Crumb in the late 1950s, Fritz the Cat rose to fame -- along with his creator -- during the underground comix revolution of the 1960s, and remains Crumb's most well-known character and an internationally recognized icon of 1960s culture.

Fritz is a feline, freewheeling chiseler who allowed Crumb to express some of his most acidic commentary on American culture. Tragicomedy, farce and satire all rolled into one, The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat chronicles the very best of Fritz's adventures from his early days as an idealistic college student to his ultimate fate as a jaded, burned-out superstar, including Crumb's infamous send-off of the character in the wake of Ralph Bakshi's animated feature film, an experience and project that completely dissatisfied Crumb.

Finally collected in a single volume, these Fritz stories are a funny, insightful, authentic record of a tumultuous period in American life, with humor and compassion by the most well-respected cartoonist of all time.