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An interesting obiturary in the Times.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:13 pm
by Caoimhin
I've recently taken to reading the obituraries in the metro section of the New York Times. The people are generally famous, unique personalities, or cartoonists. There was one in the paper today about a guy I never heard of, Steve Krantz, apparently (or so it seems) he was the creator of a cartoon called 'Fritz the Cat'. The article also discussed what that character was about, which then I immediately dismissed the notion of looking it up online. For those of you who don't know, 'Fritz the Cat' as described by the article, "sex obsessed cartoon cat." It also says that that particular movie was X-rated (and animated of course). I figured that it must be a yiffy cartoon.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:23 pm
by Tom Flapwell
I've heard of him. Notable enough that I'd put this in World News.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:48 pm
by Burning Sheep Productions
You can find the cartoons on YouTube. Doesn't look yiffy to me, just adult for the entertainment value of it.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:51 pm
by Rooster
At the time it came out Fritz was considered revolutionary. People actually thought that cartoons could be made for an adult market. Unfortunatly it was too ahead of it's time (even though i think the film itself sucks) and we had to wait for cartoons like South Park before we really got adult cartoons.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:59 pm
by Caoimhin
I wasn't exactly sure if obituaries like this count as world events, it didn't strike me as important enough. Now that ramen guy, maybe that topic should be moved, that is a huge event.
On another note, yeah I was pretty sure it wasn't yiff, I just thought because of the X rating it may have more than a R film. Doesn't really matter, its interesting regardless. Plus the X rating doesn't really exist anymore and I remember something on the History channel with an interview where the person said that an X rated movie wasn't what they expected it to be (something about the 70s I recall).
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:06 am
by Zaaphod
Well, he didn't actually make the character Fritz the Cat, R. Crumb did. Krantz did produce the movie however.
Crumb didn't like the film version of Fritz so he killed Fritz off.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:12 pm
by Muninn
Yeah, it was R. Crumb who created the character. It was quite famous at the time, largely with the counterculture.
As for who's death goes here I think, looking at past topics, he has to be moderately famous, even if it's not a "world event".
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:40 am
by Burning Sheep Productions
Hehe, it's not bad actually.
My favourite moment:
Bastards. You'd think the goddamn exams are the be all and end all of existence. Cosmic life force or something. You'd think they were the friggen fugitives. Can't even get in a few decent words to a guy. Bastards.
Oh what a bore! They sit there and take Bennys and stay up all night with their face stuck in a bunch of books and a thumb up their ***.
Oh yes, yes, I remember when the time, when it was all very inspiring and enlightening all this history and literature and sociologist ****. You think learning is a really big thing and you become this big ****in' intellectual and sit around trying to out intellectual all the other big ****en' intellectuals. You spend years and years with your nose buried in these goddammed tombs... while the world is passing you by.
All the stuff to see... and all the kicks... and all the girls are out there!
And me, a writer, and a poet! Who should be having adventures and experience in all the diversities and paradoxes and ironies of life! And passing over all the roads of the world! And digging all the cities and towns and rivers... and oceans... makin' all of them chicks... oh God...
As a writer and a poet it is my duty to get out there and dig the world. To swing the whole friggen sing while there is still time, man!
My fine around days are over, babby! From this day on I shall live every day as if it was my last! Yeah! Yeah! I must do it!
No more of the dreary boring classes and dismal lectures and sitting around ********in' with pretentious fat*** hippies! No more to books, the spoutings of a bunch of old farts who think they know the whole goddamn score! Haha! Heha! Heeehhh...
Oh my God what have I done..?
I... uh, heh... I set all my notes and books 'n' stuff on fire and uh... now I can't study for my exams...
I'll flunk out, an' my folks'll be pissed off as hell...
I'll... I'll get a blanket...
The blanket's on fire...
Uh, we better call the fire department.
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:54 am
by Fritz
Everyone is talking about me
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:53 pm
by Tom Flapwell
So we set your ears on fire?ps.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2716[/img]x
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:34 pm
by Tum0spoo
decided to take a look at the movie on youtube.
retarded, random, stupid, but it's pretty funny.