Like many other of Crumb's creations, Fritz the Cat has remained not without detractors. In "Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-Length Comics", D. Aviva Rothschild criticized the stories printed in the collection "The Life & Death of Fritz the Cat" as being misogynist, racist, and violent. He felt that, "They also tend to ramble, as if Crumb were making them up as he went along." Rothschild concluded that, "Even though "Fritz the Cat" is a classic, there are better, more coherent Crumb books around."