Gabby Schulz is Ken Dahl, who is sort of neither of these people, but also both of them. And a few more besides.

Gabby was born and raised awkwardly in Honolulu, Hawai’i. He now resides somewhere between White River Junction, Vermont and the rest of the continental Unites States. One day, and he doesn’t know when, he’s going to get to that place where he really wants to go, and he’ll walk in the sun; but ’til then tramps like him, baby they were born to run.

He was the 2006-2007 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. In 2007 his first serialized issue of Monsters won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic.

In 2008, his 10-page story in Papercutter #6 was also no small part of the reason that issue won an Ignatz too, for Outstanding Collection.

Gabby/Ken’s new graphic novel about STDs, Monsters, is available from Secret Acres. It has been nominated for a 2010 Eisner Award.

His other book, Welcome to the Dahl House, continues to sell briskly since its publication last year. It was awarded the 2008 Expozine prix for Best English-language Graphic Novel. It can be ordered from Microcosm Publishing here.

There’s also still a few issues of his Monsters minicomics floating around at I Know Joe Kimpel — and when they’re gone, they’ll be gone forever!

Back in the day, Gabby used to draw a regular comic strip for the Honolulu Weekly (his first use of the Ken Dahl moniker) — you can see some of these artifacts on his Flickr.

Gabby likes pie, the woods, and health insurance. He has been teaching himself the violin lately.

You can most likely reach him at: fantods [at] gmail [dot] com

You can also send him actual paper mail at the following address:

Gabby Schulz
287 Ocean Avenue, Apartment 4D
Brooklyn, NY 11225