The biggest news I've got is that finally, the live action feature film version of Ethan Green (also called "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green") finally got made. George Bamber, an indy director in Hollywood and Tod Abrams, the film's producer, worked for five long years to get it done and its finally here. It premiered at the Tribeca Film festival in May and did really well. It's funny, it's irreverent, Daniel Letterle did a great job as Eeth -- and Meredith Baxter was a scream as his mom. I hope you all like it -- and come out to see it when its released in your city around Christmas.

Also, I've posted a handful of new strips on the site -- its a new story line I am working on called "Inheriting Uncle Luke". I hope you like them as well.

Write me and tell me what's going on with you. Hearing from you makes my day (and week and month).

xxxooo

My friend and sometimes teacher James Suhr, a really talented animation artist in Los Angeles, drew this caricature of me. He likes mocking me for the little old lady way I hunch over my drafting table or my computer when I draw. (I drive the same way.)

November 14th, 2004 - Good. You're reading this. So I'll assume you've recovered sufficiently from the November elections to sit up in bed, sip warm milk or applesauce or crumbled up saltines through a straw, and muster the fortitude to check back in with this low-rent comix homepage.

Anyway thanks for coming and enjoy the new strips posted. Hope your visit helps you get your mind off a certain right-wing-nut-case-holy-roller takeover of the republic.

October 17th, 2004 - Dear Ethan Readers, I heard from a lot of you over the past week as we launched the new Ethan Green site. I've been ridiculously stubborn about getting this up and running. www.EthanGreen.com could've existed, like eons ago, had I not wanted to learn how to design it myself. I've learned a ton - my lover Steve has learned more. Launching this thing has been a little like getting the Hindenburg off the ground. Steve says the Hindenburg was easier. His brother Chris learned how exasperating I can be, but nevertheless painstakingly rebuilt the site from the tangled dysfunctional mess originally posted.

Many of you guys and women were kind enough to email me as soon as we posted the site. I couldn't be more grateful to hear from you. It's what has always made doing this gig worthwhile. My plan is to use this space regularly to tell you what's on my mind concerning Ethan Green, Indy Cartooning, why I'm posting certain strips sooner rather than later -- that sort of stuff.

Steve and I just spent all night dusting off some really old episodes about the Hat Sisters and Lucy the Cat. The thought occurs to me that a lot of you probably know that PlanetOut maintains a great, comprehensive chronological archive of Ethan Green Strips: Ethan Green Archive -- but it only goes as far back as the late 1990's, which means all those really early Ethan episodes - some of which I think are still pretty funny (albeit really badly drawn, smudgy and misspelled) aren't found in the PlanetOut archive. Some of these strips aren't even in the 4 (so far) printed Ethan Anthologies as they were vetoed as being too out there or weird and freaky for St. Martins Press, my publisher to include in the books. I'm thinking it's these that I'm gonna work to get up on this site next, over the next couple of months. My favorite of tonight's batch is "Fondu Hat Sisters" from 1993.

Okay dudes - that's all for now. Keep in touch.

P.S. Hey, while you are here, add your name to Ethan Green's list. Our idea is to send out messages about big additions and important news via e-mail to you only occasionally, so don't worry about receiving junk mail from us. We'll probably be more guilty of NOT sending out email and hope that you will check in often and see the changes to the site. Who wants more e-mail anyway?