As the USA TODAY Network debuts a new comics lineup across the nation, we are delving into the history and cultural impact of this uniquely American art form with experts from Ohio State University ...

Rusty Epstein’s Bummer Party Comics shine a hilarious light on life’s little absurdities. From bizarre scenarios to the chaos ...

The other night Natasha, my adult-ish daughter, asked me to accompany her to a book author event for standup comic and podcaster Tom Segura’s best-selling “I’d like to Play Alone, Please” (Grand ...

Emily Blunt sat down with Elle magazine for its Women in Hollywood cover series and looked back at her first movie audition, ...

The most that anybody knows about Owen Kline, whose debut movie as a director premiered in Cannes yesterday, is that he is the son of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, and that he starred in Noah Baumbach ...

Owen Kline’s Funny Pages is not a cartoon, but its young hero, Robert, nevertheless comes off like a coyote on the run from the anvils threatening to fall on his head. His own ego is dropping the ...

Rather than treading on sacred ground, Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi’s “Peanuts”-style biography brings Charles M. Schulz and the strip together as one. By Jeff Smith When you purchase an ...

From this bedrock of delusional artistic struggle, grotesquerie and hurt, Safdies associate Owen Kline’s debut carves a queasy slice of observational tragicomedy. With these examples and his gonzo art ...

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 ...

As seen in the trailer, Robert is so self-assured of his own talent that he really believes it when someone tells him that he’s already a professional artist. However, his comics lack a lot of basic ...