The story of “Captain Underpants” is funny, fresh and frantic, playing with format and genre, adding meta, self-reflective winks.

“Captain Underpants” is fun — plain and simple — but the biggest trick it has up its sleeve is its surprising heart. Things even work out for grumpy old Mr. Krupp in the end. “Captain Underpants” is ...

Why is David "Dav" Pilkey posing in a pair of giant tighty whities at a book appearance? Because he's the author and illustrator of the hugely popular "Captain Underpants" series -- also a big ...

Of course, the creators of Captain Underpants take their inspiration from the comic books that birthed Wonder Woman, and they come up with his juvenile name because, well, most superheroes do fly ...

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 bo… ...

So let's launder his tighty-whities with 2-1/2 stars out of 4 for the silly but funny kidflick, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.

That’s when Pilkey began making up stories about and drawing two funny characters, Dog Man and Captain Underpants. When he became an adult, Pilkey still liked these goofy characters so much that ...

The blockbuster kids' book Captain Underpants is coming to the big screen. Dreamworks hopes the film's got the same caliber of pranks and potty humor that turned the books into best-sellers.

The presumptuously titled Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, based on Dav Pilkey’s first four children’s books in the Captain Underpants series (all of which have amusingly lengthy ...

A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular "Captain Underpants" series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it "perpetuates passive racism." ...

His interests range from funny, witty, mythological, historical and animal-oriented books. Some of the books that he enjoyed reading were "Captain Underpants," "Ungifted" and the "Harry Potter ...