‘Funny Pages’ Review: A Grungy (and Sketchy)-As-It-Gets Comedy Set on the Bottom Rung of the Comic-Book Ladder

“Funny Pages,” a scruffy, grungy, likably tossed-together sketchbook of a low-budget indie comedy, typifies a paradox that now runs through a great deal of independent cinema. The movie, set in a humdrum New Jersey suburbia, unfolds on the moldy bottom rung of the comic-book ladder. It centers on two friends who are obsessed with drawing their own comics, and it’s about the insular world of geeks and creeps and pervs and weirdos that this brings them into contact with. Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), at 17, has left the posh home of his parents in Princeton and set up residence in downscale… Read Full Article