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Ethan Green Chronicles
Cartoons relate the experiences of Ethan Green, a young gay man, as he deals with rejection, loss, and longing in his search for a new relationship
128 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 1997
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May 16, 2012
Good, but not great.
I read this after watching the amazing movie. I feel there were elements in the movie that need to be used more in the comic. The comic at times reminds me of Cathy, which I used to read in my teens. This is a grownup gay version, which appeals.
There are several things that really work. The candour, the hat sisters, the cat, all great. The universe is also highly established which is good.
The negative, the whole thing is too busy. Elements such as people sleeping around on Ethan are touched on for one frame of one comic. It moves too fast and while the creator may know the story well enough to move that fast, we don't.
It seems like this strip has stopped which is too bad as I feel it has loads of potential. Something to keep in mind would be to have one idea or focus for each strip. Something like Ethan flies to Montreal and meets a chef who has a boyfriend and is a shady cook and then has a friend fly him to the airport and the friend is silent in the car like she's done this too many times before is really too much for four squares and things get lost along the way.
I read this after watching the amazing movie. I feel there were elements in the movie that need to be used more in the comic. The comic at times reminds me of Cathy, which I used to read in my teens. This is a grownup gay version, which appeals.
There are several things that really work. The candour, the hat sisters, the cat, all great. The universe is also highly established which is good.
The negative, the whole thing is too busy. Elements such as people sleeping around on Ethan are touched on for one frame of one comic. It moves too fast and while the creator may know the story well enough to move that fast, we don't.
It seems like this strip has stopped which is too bad as I feel it has loads of potential. Something to keep in mind would be to have one idea or focus for each strip. Something like Ethan flies to Montreal and meets a chef who has a boyfriend and is a shady cook and then has a friend fly him to the airport and the friend is silent in the car like she's done this too many times before is really too much for four squares and things get lost along the way.
September 30, 2009
I always find a book collection of a weekly or biweekly comic strip most successful if the individual volume has managed to tell a more or less complete narrative within its pages; I want to read something that can involve me emotionally as well as provide the requisite chuckles - rarely does a collection of simple ha-ha one-offs compel any further notice after I've put it down. This, the third Ethan Green book collection, is Eric Orner's best, IMHO. Eric’s cartooning skills - always formidable in the first place, which is why “Ethan Green” was THE syndicated gay male comic strip of the 90’s and into the early 00's - had reached full maturity here. The strips in this collection are not just a bunch of clever jokes strung together; though often very funny, there is real life captured here in all its complexity; the ups and downs of one gay dude and his circle of friends and lovers, captured realistically with great humor and drawn with panache.
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