The film is now in theaters. For The Times, Justin Chang wrote, “An attention-grabbing debut for its 30-year-old writer and director, Owen Kline, ‘Funny Pages’ draws its cranky-grungy energy ...

“Funny Pages” announces its parameters in its inaugural scene, which finds teacher and student yammering in Katano’s office as Robert eagerly flips through some infamous, old-time dirty ...

So he’s happy to strip — for art! “Funny Pages” relays Kline’s clear reverence for cartoons and cartoonists, from amateurs young and old to masters of the art. The people in Robert’s ...

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 ...

Owen Kline’s Funny Pages is not a cartoon ... Robert, played by Daniel Zolghadri, is an 18-year-old wannabe comic artist, a promising young man who’s been given the leeway to dive into ...

he digs through his old collection and finds examples of his work. Risking more than he realizes, he sets about making this angry, unhappy man teach him everything he knows. “Funny Pages” does ...

"Funny Pages," a new film by Owen Kline that opens ... It's the story of Robert, a 17-year-old cartoonist in Princeton, N.J., who doesn't want to be a college student because he fears it might ...

Apr. 15—At a time when digital art and photography — much of it created not just with but by computers — one Cochranton native has found success with traditional drawings in an old-school ...

18-year-old Robert (Daniel Zolghadri ... but Kline remains true to the spirit of those he's channeling. "Funny Pages" would program well alongside "Crumb" or "American Splendor," spiritually ...