Sick

The award winning author of monsters explores the political issues that affect our personal health in his new book, Sick.

The author of the perennial classic, Monsters (written as Ken Dahl), Gabby Schulz returns with a new graphic novel, Sick, which Hicksville author Dylan Horrocks calls "a punch in the face and well worth reading." Severely ill, uninsured, alone, and confined to his bed for weeks, Schulz was left searching—only to find himself. Sick documents his discovery in gory, glorious, water-colored detail, finally completed and collected here for the first time in a beautiful, album-sized hardcover edition. Like Monsters, Sick focuses on health and social policy, this time expanding from the subject of STDs and their stigma to the larger, hot-button issue of national healthcare. 

Gabby Schulz – who sometimes goes by the name Ken Dahl – was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i, and has spent most of his adult life in transit about the North American continent. His graphic novel, Monsters, won two Ignatz Awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, and was included in the 2012 Best American Comics Anthology. He other works include a short story collection, Welcome to the Dahl House, and the graphic novel, Sick, an Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Online Comic, collected in a full color hardcover edition from Secret Acres.