From the madness of North Korea to memoirs of modern dating and caring for elderly parents, these books show how the best graphic artists can get a laugh out of almost anything.

Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas. Inside was an infant – the sole ...

Comic Tom Segura's best-selling book, "I'd Like To Play Alone, Please" Courtesy Grand Central Publishing. The other night Natasha, my adult-ish daughter, asked me to accompany her to a book author ...

It’s time to drop the snobbery around kids’ comic books. At Beano we always listen to kids. Minnie the Minx, now celebrating 70 years in the comic, is perennially 10 years old, and we reach ...

‘Funny Pages’: A Portrait of the Comic-Book Artist as a Gross and Clueless Young Man. Owen Kline’s tale of an 18-year-old wannabe cartoonist is a zany, ...

Giving visual authenticity to his voice “My daughter, a great artist,” said Tomb, “was 15 at the time. I asked her, if I were to write the captions for a comic book, if she would illustrate it.

The key early meetings of Superman and Batman in comic books are fairly well chronicled. The characters appeared on the cover of New York World's Fair 1940 together. They had a single-panel cameo ...

While growing up in Nevada City, a forested community 60 miles northeast of Sacramento, Nick Tomb never imagined the trajectory of his future. He didn’t imagine teaching English in Japan ...

Spoilers for The Penguin episode 1 follow!Within minutes The Penguin makes two things clear: the TV series is starting just days after the events of The Batman, and it’s also fully entrenched in ...

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‘Funny Pages’ Film Review: A Darkly Hilarious Portrait of the Comic Book Artist as a Young Suburban Poser. Daniel Zolghadri shines in Owen Kline’s darkly hilarious directorial debut. A24.

A24 has become pretty synonymous with critically acclaimed, slow-burning horror movies (Hereditary, Lamb, Men, Saint Maud, technically The Humans), but they're by no means a one-trick pony ...