Fate intervenes when Wallace ( Matthew Maher), a troubled ex-con / ex-mental patient / ex-assistant comic book colorist crosses his path. After the death of his beloved high school art teacher (which he may or may not be responsible for) Robert scores a day-job as a factotum in a public defender’s office, an after-hours job in a comic book store, and a mattress in the sweatiest apartment share in Trenton, while relentlessly pursuing his muse. It also captures the sort of single-mindedness, self-absorption and hunger required to transition from comics consumer to comics maker, as well as something about the kind of moths who are attracted to that particular flame.įunny Pages tells the story of Robert Bleichner ( Daniel Zolghadri), an upper middle class kid from New Jersey and wanna-be comic book artist who dives headfirst into the adult end of the pool, ready or not. When it finally came down to “comic books or movies?” Owen cast his lot wisely and his first feature, Funny Pages, is an over-the-shoulder glance at the road not taken, capturing something specific and genuine of that Rocketship milieu. How To Read Nancy, painstakingly transcribing the last known interview with cartoonist Harry Haenigsen, then in his 90s, from an already disintegrating VHS tape. Jump cut to a few years later and Owen was an able-bodied hand on the S.S. I first met Owen Kline over a decade ago a teenage comics fan and aspiring cartoonist (not unlike the lead character in his film) at a Gary Panter event in downtown Brooklyn’s late great comic book store, Rocketship. Mark Newgarden | SeptemLeading man Daniel Zolghadri with writer/director Owen Kline, Johnny Ryan prop art and Felix Soakies. Features A Sweaty Chat With Funny Pages Writer/Director Owen Kline
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