![]() Orner lives in New York and Smahtguy is his first graphic novel.Įric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country’s most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel?a dazzling, irreverent biography of the iconic and iconoclastic Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and a front-line defender of civil rights. ![]() His cartoon story “Weekends Abroad” was included in Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics 2011. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New Republic. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005, the same year that Orner retired the comic strip. ![]() ![]() ![]() Join ERIC ORNER-acclaimed author of The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green and former Congressional aide to Barney Frank-for a discussion of his new book “Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank.”Įric 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 first and longest-running gay comic strips. ![]()
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