Question: Fritz the Cat is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb, Fritz became one of his most famous characters, thanks largely to the motion picture adaptation by Ralph Bakshi, is an American director of animated and live-action films, born on which date?

Context articles: Fritz the Cat (film)
Introducing Kafka
George Herriman
Ralph Bakshi
S. Clay Wilson
Cool World
Cool and the Crazy
Heavy Traffic
Maxon Crumb
Fritz the Cat

Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi.
 It was Bakshi's feature film debut and is loosely based on the Fritz the Cat comic strips by Robert Crumb.
 It was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.
Introducing Kafka, also known as R. Crumb's Kafka, is an illustrated biography of Franz Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb.
 The book includes comic adaptations of some of Kafka's most famous works including "The Metamorphosis", "A Hunger Artist", "In the Penal Colony", and "The Judgment", as well as brief sketches of his three novels "The Trial", "The Castle", and "Amerika".
 The book also details Kafka's biography in a format that is part illustrated essay, part sequential comic panels.
 The book was released as part of the "Introducing..." series by Totem Books; the popularity of Crumb's renditions of Kafka's works led to additional printings under the title "R. Crumb's Kafka",and its most recent edition by Fantagraphics Books (2007) is simply titled "Kafka".
George Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip "Krazy Kat" (1913–1944).
 More influential than popular, "Krazy Kat" had an appreciative audience among those in the arts.
 Gilbert Seldes' article "The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself" was the earliest example of a critic from the high arts giving serious attention to a comic strip. "
The Comics Journal" placed the strip first on its list of the greatest comics of the 20th century.
 Herriman's work has been a primary influence on cartoonists such as Will Eisner, Charles M. Schulz, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Bill Watterson, and Chris Ware.
Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films.
 In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions.
 Between 1972 and 2015, he directed ten theatrically released feature films, six of which he wrote.
 He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator.
Steve Clay Wilson (born July 25, 1941), better known as S. Clay Wilson, is an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement.
 Wilson attracted attention from readers with aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of lowlife denizens, often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers.
 He was an early contributor to "Zap Comix", and Wilson's artistic audacity has been cited by Robert Crumb as a liberating source of inspiration for Crumb's own work.
 Recalling he first saw Wilson's work (in about 1968) Robert Crumb said, "The content was something like I'd never seen before, anywhere, the level of mayhem, violence, dismemberment, naked women, loose body parts, huge, obscene sex organs, a nightmare vision of hell-on-earth never so graphically illustrated before in the history of art... Suddenly my own work seemed insipid..."
Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt.
 It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, and is seduced by one of the characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real.
Cool and the Crazy is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi and starring Jared Leto and Alicia Silverstone.
 The story revolves around an unhappily married couple in the late 1950s who both lead separate affairs.
 The film was Bakshi's first feature-length live-action film, being primarily known as a director of animated films which heavily utilize live-action sequences, such as "Fritz the Cat", "Heavy Traffic", "Wizards", "American Pop" and "The Lord of the Rings".
Heavy Traffic is a 1973 American adult animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi.
 The film, which begins, ends, and occasionally combines with live-action, explores the often surreal fantasies of a young New York cartoonist named Michael Corleone, using pinball imagery as a metaphor for inner-city life.
 "Heavy Traffic" was Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz's follow-up to the film "Fritz the Cat".
 Though producer Krantz made varied attempts to produce an R-rated film, "Heavy Traffic" was given an X rating by the MPAA.
 The film received positive reviews and is widely considered to be Bakshi's biggest critical success.
Maxon Crumb (born 1945) is an American artist.
 He is the younger brother of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and Charles Crumb, and the uncle of Sophie Crumb.
 He also had two sisters, Carol DeGennaro and Sandra Colorado (1946-1998), who was the widow of writer Marty Pahls, a friend of Robert Crumb.
 His parents are Charles Crumb and Beatrice Crumb.
Fritz the Cat is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb.
 Set in a "supercity" of anthropomorphic animals, the strip focuses on Fritz, a feline con artist who frequently goes on wild adventures that sometimes involve sexual escapades.
 Crumb began drawing this character in homemade comic books when he was a child.
 Fritz became one of his most famous characters, thanks largely to the motion picture adaptation by Ralph Bakshi.