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Howard Tayler was born on 29 February, 1968 in Florida, United States, is an American cartoonist. Discover Howard Tayler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 29 February, 1968
Birthday 29 February
Birthplace Florida, United States
Nationality United States

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1931

Tayler's most well-known work is his webcomic, Schlock Mercenary, a comedic webcomic following the tribulations of a star-travelling mercenary company in a satiric, mildly dystopian 31st-century space opera setting.

1968

Howard V. Tayler (born February 29, 1968, in Florida) is the creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary.

He worked as a volunteer missionary for the LDS Church, then graduated from Brigham Young University.

Using his degree in music composition, he started an independent record label.

While working at Novell, Tayler began online publication of Schlock Mercenary.

He quit his job at Novell several years later in order to work on the webcomic full-time.

Schlock Mercenary has been nominated multiple times and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in two different categories, and the webcomic has been nominated four times for a Hugo Award.

Tayler spends time regularly during the week drawing at a local comic book and gaming store, as well as producing a weekly writing tips podcast called Writing Excuses with fellow authors Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, and producer Jordan Sanderson.

1985

In 1985, he moved to Utah (his home as of 2020) to attend Brigham Young University.

After studying there for two years, he volunteered to be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) before returning to BYU to finish a bachelor's degree in Music Composition.

Tayler co-founded an independent record label called Sanctus Records for the LDS market.

Tayler also worked for Novell as a project manager, he co-authored a guide to administering GroupWise.

2000

In 2000, he began publishing his webcomic, Schlock Mercenary.

Four years later, Tayler left his job as product line manager at Novell to work full-time on the webcomic.

In March 2000, Tayler, with co-authors Ross Phillips and Tay Kratzer, composed the guidebook Administering GroupWise 5.5 to assist system administrators in managing Novell's GroupWise.

Since its debut on June 12, 2000, the comic is updated daily, begun to support its author, and was nominated for three Hugo Awards.

Tayler also produces Writing Excuses, along with novelist Mary Robinette Kowal, best-selling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and horror author Dan Wells.

2001

Tayler won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards Best Cameo Award in 2001, and was also nominated for Best Comic, Best Writing, Best Other Character, and Best Science-Fiction Comic the same year.

2004

He won WCCA Outstanding Science Fiction Comic in 2004, and was nominated for the same award in 2005 and 2007.

2008

Running weekly since February 10, 2008, this 15-minute writing tips podcast featured notable guests including Steve Jackson, Phil Foglio, Brandon Mull, Tracy Hickman, and Patrick Rothfuss.

Along with best-selling fantasy author Tracy Hickman and his son, Curtis, he illustrated and published XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery.

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2009

By 2009, he was able to earn enough from the sales of the compilation books and other merchandise to make ends meet and reduce his weekly workload from 80–100 hours to 40–50.

He was a guest of honor at many genre conventions, including Balticon, CONduit, LepreCon, and Life, the Universe, & Everything.

His wife, Sandra, is also a published author.

He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for Schlock Mercenary four times: The Body Politic (2009);

2010

The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse (2010); Massively Parallel (2011), and Force Multiplication (2012).

2011

The podcast has been nominated for a Hugo Award in 2011, 2012 and has won in 2013.

Tayler was born in Florida.

Tayler, Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, producer Jordan Sanderson, and Mary Robinette Kowal (2011) were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for the fourth, sixth and seventh seasons of Writing Excuses, a podcast for aspiring authors.

2013

They won in 2013.