The People's Comics

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.

The People's Comics
Cover of The People's Comics. Art by Robert Crumb.
Publication information
PublisherGolden Gate Publishing Company (first printing)
Kitchen Sink Press
(second through seventh printings)
ScheduleSeven printings
FormatOne-shot
Genre
Publication dateSeptember 1972
No. of issues1
Creative team
Written byRobert Crumb
Harvey Pekar
(Back cover feature)
Artist(s)Robert Crumb
Collected editions
The Complete Crumb Comics #8: The Death of Fritz the CatISBN 1-56097-076-6

Publication history

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, who published the following six printings.[1]

Reception

Underground comix database Comixjoint gave The People's Comics an 8/10 rating, calling the writing "excellent" and the illustration "exceptional".[1] Writer 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
  1. "The People's Comics 1st Printing at Comixjoint.com". comixjoint.com. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
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