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The Ethan Green Coffee/Tea Mug! Detailed in a checker board style with fun, high quality images of your favorite "Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green" comic strip characters. They belong in your own kitchen, dining room or office, no? Available in two sizes, regular and Grande. You will love drinking out of them. Very cool. Take me to the store!

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The Ethan Green Mouse Pad! Covered in images from the popular Pride series strips! Nice smooth cloth on top, non-skid rubber on the bottom. A high quality item and a great gift for that proud someone you know! You can see larger images and find the details in the store. Nice. Click here to enter the store.

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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green is a series of comic strips that focus on the book's title character: Ethan Green a young gay man. Because there are some continuous story elements, the book reads like a graphic novel. The copyright page notes that the book's contents have copyright dates from 1990 to 1992.

Ethan's world is fleshed out with some entertaining supporting characters, such as his friend Bucky and lesbian couple Liza and Beth. But my favorite supporting character is Madame Zolna, Ethan's deliciously sarcastic "psychic" advisor; the Zolna episodes have real bite.

Along the way love, dating, politics, "outing," sex, representations of gays in popular culture, and other topics are satirized. Celebrities (like Madonna and Kitty Kelly) are occasionally spoofed. The drawing style is fun, quirky, and occasionally a bit raunchy. Overall, it's a witty, intelligent, compassionate, and very entertaining glimpse at gay life. Essential reading for fans of cutting-edge comics. Buy It From Amazon

The Seven Deadly Sins of Love. Gay cultural commentators and comics enthusiasts consider Orner's "Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green" the gay male analog to Alison Bechdel's brilliant "Dykes to Watch Out For." Both strips reflect genuine gay concerns, both react to gay political developments, and both are satirically funny--very. But "Dykes" is the most successful realistic strip going, whereas "Ethan Green" is playfully self-reflexive (Ethan complains about being a comic-strip character) and surrealistic (Ethan's cat complains about appearing in dream- and fantasy-based strips).

More significantly, "Dykes" recounts the adventures of a vibrant community of women, whereas "Ethan Green" is about lone and often lonely Ethan adrift in the gay male subculture, forever unfulfilled. "Dykes" makes its lesbian community look vital, intelligent, and humane. "Ethan Green" makes the gay male subculture look considerably less attractive. The rest of the strip's title best bespeaks Orner's rueful, even resentful, representation of that subculture as one that furnishes only a "mostly unfabulous social life." Buy It From Amazon

Ethan Green Chronicles. Orner's cartoon interpretations of contemporary gay life are so insightful, so delightful, and so outrageously funny. The nuances of Orner's humor within each cartoon frame require careful inspection, but not to worry. You're always rewarded with a laugh. Not to sell Ethan Green short, it's important to note that Orner often tackles issues relevant to the current cultural scene. But never without his tongue firmly in his cheek!

Readers say: "After enjoying THE MOSTLY UNFABULOUS SOCIAL LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN comic strip for quite some time in your local gay newspaper, I took the plunge and invested in Eric Orner's book, THE ETHAN GREEN CHRONICLES. And what an excellent investment it was! Buy this book! You won't be sorry."

And another: "We really care about Ethan's (mis)adventures just because he IS so real. He doesn't ever give up on love, but his road to that promised land is filled with so many hysterical side-tracks that it becomes an increasingly distant prospect. Who CAN'T identify with that?" Buy It From Amazon

Ethan Green Exposed. The fourth collection of strips from Eric Orner's syndicated comic, "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green," flips back and forth between the latest developments in Ethan's life--including his on-again, off-again romance with Doug and a new job as a personal assistant to a closeted celebrity weatherman--and hilarious one-off gag strips like "Really Pretty Far Off the Circuit Circuit Parties" and the "Dream Date Alphabet" ("Umberto is Unfaithful, and Vincent is Vicious", etc!)

Part of the joy of reading Orner's work in these collections is that it highlights the strength of his long-range storylines, which include a cast of nearly a dozen supporting characters, from his best friend, Buck, to the wacky Hat Sisters--who, in one memorable strip, provide their own delicious solution to the Clinton impeachment crisis, including washing out a certain independent prosecutor's mouth with soap. Buy It From Amazon