Eric Orner

Eric Orner is a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank and the acclaimed author of The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green , one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005, the same year that Orner retired the comic strip. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post , the Boston Globe , the San Francisco Chronicle , and the New Republic . His cartoon story "Weekends Abroad"...See more

Eric Orner is a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank and the acclaimed author of The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green , one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005, the same year that Orner retired the comic strip. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post , the Boston Globe , the San Francisco Chronicle , and the New Republic . His cartoon story "Weekends Abroad" was included in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2011 . Orner lives in New York and Smahtguy is his first graphic novel. See less