Eric Orner is an openly

Coming out

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 gay

Gay

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 American

United States

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 cartoonist

Cartoonist

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 whose works revolve around LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 issues. He is best known for long running indy comic strip, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green is a syndicated comic strip drawn by Eric Orner. Appearing in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender publications, the strip's title character is Ethan Green, a young gay man trying to balance his professional career as a personal assistant with his...

, which was adapted into a feature film (of the same title) and which received a limited national cinematic release in 2005. He has published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe  the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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 and The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

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Eric Orner's cartoon story "Weekends Abroad" was included in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2011. He has been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and the Small Press Expo's Ignatz Award.

Books

• The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (1992)
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Love (1994)
• The Ethan Green Chronicles (1997)
• Ethan Exposed (1999)

External links

• http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-06-29/entertainment/17298756_1_eric-orner-ethan-green-unfabulous-social-life