Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250191588)

Eric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel--a dazzling, irreverent biography of the iconic and iconoclastic Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and a front-line defender of civil rights.

What are the odds that a disheveled, zaftig, closeted kid with the thickest of Jersey accents might wind up running Boston on behalf of a storied Irish Catholic political machine, drafting the nation's first gay rights laws, reforming Wall Street after the Great Recession, and finding love, after a lifetime assuming that he couldn't and wouldn't?

In Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, one of America's first out members of Congress and a gay and civil rights crusader for an era is confirmed as a hero of our age. But more than a biography of an indispensable LGBTQ pioneer, this funny, beautifully rendered, warts-and-all graphic account reveals the down-and-dirty inner workings of Boston and DC politics.

As Frank's longtime staff counsel and press secretary, Eric Orner lends his first-hand perspective to this extraordinary work of history, paying tribute to the mighty striving of committed liberals to defend ordinary Americans from an assault on their shared society.

Author: Eric Orner
ISBN-10: 1250191580
ISBN-13: 9781250191588
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 10.50h x 7.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 10/04/2021
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 36
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2022 pg. 48