Since winning a writing contest at age 19 he has been penning children's books full of poopypants and wedgie jokes with Captain Underpants flying from the presses in 1997.

(CNN) -- Here's what you need to know about Captain Underpants, in brief: He's a pudgy comic superhero in a red cape and white undies, who flies through the pages of a series of children's books ...

When a new science teacher, rendered in the boys’ imagination as Professor Poopypants (Nick Kroll), announces his villainous intentions to eliminate all laughter, the boys and Captain Underpants ...

How hysterical do you find the name Professor Poopypants?Not very? Then you are likely a grown adult (and probably female). If you don’t find gags about farts, poop, tinkle, wedgies, and giant toilets ...

It’s hard to say the name “Captain Underpants” without smiling, and the big-screen debut of the skivvies-clad superhero (the film’s subtitle is “The First Epic Movie”) maintains that ...

Thankfully, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie breaks this mold. ... toilets, and the words “underpants” and “poopypants” in their own right. The filmmakers get this, ...

Clever, sweet, smart and sassy, the animated “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” is stuffed with many weird and funny elements, but primarily it exists as a celebration of the bond ...

In the fourth book of the series, "Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants," Pilkey provides a chart of silly syllables and semi-crass words that, when applied according ...

As a superhero Captain Underpants may lack muscles but he's proven to have the power to get children reading with his creator, Dav Pilkey, hoping four new books with the same potty humor will nab ...

The plot pulls from four installments of Dav Pilkey’s 12-book series about the adventures of 4th-grade pranksters George Beard and Harold Hutchins and their invented superhero, Captain Underp… ...

Review ‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’ ♦♦♦. Credits: Directed by David Soren, with the voices of Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms Running time/rating: 1:29, PG for ...