Portrait of the cartoonist as a young man: Robert (Daniel Zolghadri) continues his studies With these examples and his gonzo art teacher’s praise driving him on, Robert spurns his parent’s privileged ...

Funny Pages is the latest movie from the A24 that goes on general release this week, about a young cartoonist finding his calling as a comic book creator. A black comedy film written, directed, and ...

“Funny Pages,” a scruffy, grungy, likably tossed-together sketchbook of a low-budget indie comedy, typifies a paradox that now runs through a great deal of independent cinema. The movie, set in a ...

Because comic books currently inspire many of the most globally popular movies and TV shows, it’s easy to forget that the original medium — individual comics issues, most commonly found in specialty ...

Johnny Ryan shares the instructions given to him by the first-time director: "'It can be as dirty or crazy as you want it to be.'" “Funny Pages” centers on a New Jersey teen obsessed, like Kline was ...

The alternative comics scene is historically a source of some truly gnarly outsider art. For decades it was a haven for dirtbags, weirdoes, and the crustiest misfits with no interest in working for ...

Owen Kline’s darkly hilarious directorial debut “Funny Pages” is a coming-of-age tale that finds the sublime in the grotesque, and the profound in an absurd search for meaning in the basement ...

A young artist tries breaking into the world of underground comics through the backdoor, or maybe even the sewer, in "Funny Pages," a seedy, unnervingly raw coming-of-age story about cred, ...

“I wanted to make a movie about a cartoonist, and the hermetic seal of a local comics shop. I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was younger so it was just fabric I was familiar with,” the director ...

At a certain point in “Funny Pages,” a calculatedly abrasive portrait of the comic-book artist as a young man, I lost count of exactly how many of its characters I’d envisioned falling off a cliff. I ...