Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Barney Frank gets graphic

The May issue of Washingtonian magazine reports on the publication of Eric Orner's new graphic novel, Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank. (Many BookMen members will recall Orner from his long-running comic strip in the Washington Blade and other gay publications, "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.") As the former congressman's longtime staff counsel and press secretary, and a fellow gay man, Orner is uniquely equipped to tell the story of Frank's rise from an insider's perspective. Here is the excerpt that appears in the magazine writeup about the book:



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