‘Funny Pages’ review: A teenage cartoonist quits school to follow his dream. In Trenton
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Aug 25, 2022
2 minutes
Pick your mentors carefully: Without any overt lectures or lesson plans for the audience, that’s the ink- and blood-stained takeaway in “Funny Pages,” a bracingly harsh coming-of-age comedy from a debut feature filmmaker.
It opens in theaters and on VOD Friday. As a bonus, it’s the least festive Christmas movie since “Bad Santa,” and a lot gutsier.
The son of Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline, writer-director Owen Kline played the
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