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 independent animated movie of all time.
How, in a time when animation was exclusively the domain of squeaky clean, family-friendly movies, dominated then as now by Disney, did a more adult animated film like Fritz the Cat achieve such a feat? The story is almost as weird as the movie itself.
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