Crumb denied any personal attachment to the character, stating, "I just got into drawing him ... He was fun to draw." As Crumb's personal life changed, Fritz would too. According to Pahls, "For years, had few friends and no sex life; he was forced to spend many hours at school or on the job, and when he came home he 'escaped' by drawing home-made comics. When he suddenly found a group of friends that would accept him for himself, as he did in Cleveland in 1964, the 'compensation' factor went out of his drawing, and this was pretty much the end of Fritz's impetus."