It was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States and the most successful independent animated feature to date.
Bodē was a friend of animator Ralph Bakshi, and warned him against working with Robert Crumb on the animated film adaptation of Crumb's strip Fritz the Cat.
Cat Stevens | Fritz Lang | Fritz Leiber | cat | Cat Power | Cat | Fritz Kreisler | Felix the Cat | Cheshire Cat | The Cat Empire | Fritz Weaver | Fritz Reiner | Fritz Haber | Dick Whittington and His Cat | Cat's Cradle | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tom Cat | Robert Fritz | Robert C. Fritz | Fritz Gesztesy | Fritz Dreisbach | Chris Fritz | Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys | CAT | The Case of the Black Cat | L'amico Fritz | Fritz London | Fritz Laves | Fritz Kranefuss | Fritz Grünbaum |
Taras also served as animator and/or designer for television programs such as Batfink, Spider-Man (The 1967 series), Josie and the Pussycats, Super Friends; and for theatrical motion pictures such as Fritz The Cat, Lord of the Rings, and Wizards.
From the late 1960s to about the mid-1980s, several mainstream films were released with an X rating such as Midnight Cowboy, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, A Clockwork Orange, Fritz the Cat, Last Tango in Paris and The Evil Dead.
Mike E. Clark was brought in to produce the album, but left the project after producing four songs, and Fritz the Cat produced the rest of the album.