Robert Schnakenberg
| Robert Schnakenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 19, 1969 Huntington, New York |
| Pen name | Paul Casanova, Montague John Druitt, William Gull, Elliott Larkfield, John Pizer, J.K. Stephen, Seth Strummer, Nguyen van Foch, David Stabler |
| Nationality | American |
| Website | |
| http://www.schnakworld.com | |
Robert Schnakenberg (born March 19, 1969) is a self-styled “author and raconteur” from Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for writing comic books, as well as a series of popular reference books about entertainment, sports, and world history.
Schnakenberg was born in Huntington, New York, birthplace of Walt Whitman. As a young man, he worked as a tour guide at the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site. He also worked as a security guard at the Heckscher Museum of Art. His father, William D. Schnakenberg, was a longtime employee of the United States Postal Service and the onetime mailman for jazz great Louis Armstrong. His uncle, Donald Schnakenberg, was the director of finance for the New York City Council during the mayoralty of Edward I. Koch.
Schnakenberg is a graduate of John Glenn High School in Elwood, New York. He attended New York University and Stony Brook University, where his professors included the poet Louis Simpson, the novelist Thomas Flanagan, and celebrated "Death of God" theologian Thomas J.J. Altizer. Schnakenberg's personal affect during this period has been likened to that of an "edgy Peter Bonerz."
Schnakenberg began his career in the early 1990s as the head writer for Personality Comics, an independent publisher specializing in pornographic, parody, and biographical comic books. He authored more than 50 comic books under a variety of pseudonyms, including the popular Spoof Comics parodies Fantastic Femmes and X-Babes. He created the superheroine Headlights and authored the groundbreaking AIDS awareness superhero comic Healthman. His 1992 comic book Soul Trek, a humorous mash-up of Star Trek and Soul Train, is part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Uncut Funk, a virtual museum “dedicated to the celebration and preservation of the Funk.”
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