In 1972, Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat – a cartoon filled with sex, drugs, and graphic violence – became not just the most successful animated movie released that year, but also the most successful ...

Of the titles screening at the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s fun, summer-long “Midnight Movies” program, Fritz the Cat stands out for sheer lasciviousness. Written, animated and adapted by Ralph ...

Originally advertised as “X-rated and animated,” “Fritz the Cat” scored a hit when it was released in 1972, earning a then-impressive $25 million. (It cost only $850,000--a shoestring even at the time ...

Ralph Bakshi's bawdy and outrageous 1972 film sparked controversy when it was released 50 years ago – changing animation forever, writes Tamlin Magee. A blazer-clad student called Fritz attends ...

In the hands of writer and director Ralph Bakshi, a popular underground comics character was the inspiration for the first X-rated animated feature in Hollywood history, over the strenuous objections ...

Robert “Bob” Taylor, an award-winning animator, producer and director best known for animated TV series including “TaleSpin” and animated films such as “The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat,” died December ...

This 1970 German documentary on Robert Crumb contains rare footage of Ralph Bakshi in his studio during the making of Fritz the Cat. Young Ralph is shown in the studio, walking through New York and ...

To the extent that anyone under 40 knows of Fritz, it’s probably as a mere cartoon sex romp. So it may be a surprise to learn that, under the direction of animator Ralph Bakshi, it’s really a groovy ...