Eric Orner is the creator of the acclaimed The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, one of the country’s first and longest-running gay comic strips, which was anthologized in four books from St. Martin’s Press and collected in an omnibus by Northwest Press. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005. Orner is also a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank and has recently published Smahtguy, a graphic biographer of the pioneering openly gay Congressman. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New Republic. His story “Weekends Abroad” was included in Houghton Miflin’s Best American Comics 2011. Orner lives in New York.