is uncommunicative and sullen with his parents and throws himself full time into trying to become as subversive as his drawings. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FUNNY PAGES") MATTHEW MAHER: (As Wallace ...

Comic Strip Controversies," a new exhibition at the Cartoon Art Museum. Sex and sexuality, violence, racism, class warfare and political agendas have all been addressed on the so-called funny ...

But comic art began well before that, even to primitives who classed up their caves with wall drawings ... of all racial stripes inhabit the funny pages. “Jump Start” is about a black family ...

The cartoon is an opportunity to deconstruct funny, as Mankoff does in his blog. He offers a cartoon summary of the Seinfeld episode for those of us who can't remember the pig. In the episode ...