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 ...

Dirty cartoons have been around since the dawn of animation (and the dawn of man), but none took the world of cinema by storm, pushed the envelope further, and made a cause célèbre quite like the ...

The other day I was watching the new DC animated film Batman: Assault on Arkham, and while I thought it was generally a subpar film in general, I remember watching a scene between Harley Quinn and ...

There's nothing adorable about Fritz the Cat. Although to some he is the mascot of the underground comix movement that began in the 1960s, Fritz isn't likable. Fantagraphics is giving us another ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — His religious upbringing might well be as unorthodox as the psychedelic-inspired comic-strip characters that have made R. Crumb the most famous underground artist of his time. Which, ...

Producer Steve Krantz died Thursday in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia. He was 83. Krantz, husband of author Judith Krantz, produced several of her novels for television, including ...

It was a strong session tonight at Heritage for original art, with another Crumb page — the infamous "Keep On Truckin" page from XYZ Comics (1972, Kitchen Sink) selling for $191,200, the cover of ...

We have previously reported on the astonishing rise in value of comics and comic art in the last few years, with five recent sales of original TinTin comic art fetching over US$1 million each. Now, ...