The People's Comics
| The People's Comics | |
|---|---|
 Cover of The People's Comics, art by Robert Crumb. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Golden Gate Publishing Company (first printing) Kitchen Sink Press (second through seventh printings) |
| Schedule | Seven printings |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | September 1972 |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Robert Crumb Harvey Pekar (back cover feature) |
| Artist(s) | Robert Crumb |
| Collected editions | |
| The Complete Crumb Comics #8: The Death of Fritz the Cat | ISBN 1-56097-076-6 |
The People's Comics is a single-issue underground comic book drawn and written largely by Robert Crumb, with a young Harvey Pekar writing a back cover feature. The book is notable for containing the death sequence of Fritz the Cat following Crumb's disappointment with Ralph Bakshi's 1972 film involving the character.
Publication history
[edit]Terry Zwigoff's Golden Gate Publishing Company published the original printing of the comic. Zwigoff soon sold his company's printing rights to Kitchen Sink Press, which published the following six printings.[1]
Reception
[edit]Underground comix database Comixjoint gave The People's Comics an 8/10 rating, calling the writing "excellent" and the illustration "exceptional".[1] Writer M. Steven Fox noted of the book's stories that "Beyond "Fritz the Cat, Superstar", the insightful "Confessions of R. Crumb" provides plenty to chew on. Crumb conveys a dreadful world filled with appalling people, mundane exercises, inescapable forces and compulsive obsessions, and how living on this planet fucks us up from the day we're born".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Fox, M. Steven. "The People's Comics 1st Printing at Comixjoint.com". comixjoint.com. Retrieved 2019-08-26.