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Ian and David reminisce about the odd, audacious indie scene of the 90s with a look at Owen Kline's Funny Pages!

This biting black comedy stars Daniel Zolghadri as Robert, a teenage artist who drops out of high school to pursue a career in comics. While temping for a public defender, Daniel meets Wallace (Matthew Maher), a former color separator for Image Comics who wants nothing to do with the awkward, starry-eyed kid asking him for pointers.

In this spoiler-lite conversation, the guys indulge their inner (and, frankly, outer) comics geeks while heaping praise on this hard-to-watch gem, which feels plucked straight out of the pre-millennial arthouse scene--or the grotesquely liberating autobiographical comix of underground pioneers like R. Crumb and Harvey Pekar.

Funny Pages is now playing in select theatres and is available On Demand.

Show Links:

• Watch the Funny Pages trailer.

• Follow David's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.

• Chicagoans! Catch Funny Pages starting this weekend at the historic Music Box Theatre!

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