Howard Tayler

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Howard Tayler (born February 29, 1968 in Florida ) is an American cartoonist and author. His webcomic Schlock Mercenary was nominated several times for the Hugo Award and won it in 2001 in the category Best Cameo . His podcast Writing Excuses received the Hugo Award 2013 in the Best Related Work category .

Life

Tayler graduated from Riverview High School in 1985. He then moved to Utah , where he studied musical composition at Brigham Young University . His studies he interrupted for two years to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , also known as Mormons ) to serve. After his return he did his bachelor's degree at the university.

He later co-founded the independent label Sanctus Records , which mainly served the Mormon market. He later sold the label, however. He then worked for Novell as a collaboration product line manager. He was co-author of a manual for GroupWise at the time . In his spare time he wrote the webcomic Schlock Mercenary . As this became more and more popular, he quit his job at Novell to concentrate on drawing. The site had a daily traffic of 20,000 to 45,000 visitors in 2009. In addition to online advertising, Tayler's main source of income is the various comic books in the series and various merchandise.

In addition to Schlock Mercenary , he has had a weekly 15-minute podcast about writing called Writing Excuses since 2008, together with Dan Wells , Brandon Sanderson , producer Jordan Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal (2011) . Tayler also passes on his findings as an author of webcomics here. Together with fantasy author Tracy Hickman , he publishes the role-playing game XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery .

Howard Tayler is married to the children's author Sandra Tyler , who also supports him as a manager. The couple have four children and live in Orem , where Tayler also has his studio.

Awards and honors

Tayler won the 2001 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards (WCCA) Best Cameo Award and was nominated in four other categories. In 2004 he won the WCCA Outstanding Science Fiction Comic Award, for which he was also nominated in 2005. and 2007. He was nominated four times for the Hugo Award for the volumes The Body Politic (2009), The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse (2010), Massively Parallel (2011), and Force Multiplication (2012). Tayler was also nominated for a Hugo in 2011, 2012 and 2013 together with his colleagues for the podcast Writing Excuses . In 2013 they won the award.

Works

Schlock Mercenary
  1. Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management . The Tayler Corporation: May 2006. ISBN 0-9779074-2-2
  2. Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between . The Tayler Corporation: November 2006. ISBN 0-9779074-3-0
  3. Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness . The Tayler Corporation: December 2007. ISBN 0-9779074-0-6
  4. Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars . The Tayler Corporation: October 2008. ISBN 0-9779074-1-4
  5. Schlock Mercenary: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance The Tayler Corporation: June 2009. ISBN 0-9779074-4-9
  6. Schlock Mercenary: Resident Mad Scientist . Hypernode Press: July 2010. ISBN 0-9779074-7-3
  7. Schlock Mercenary: Emperor Pius Dei . Hypernode Press: July 2011. ISBN 0-9835746-0-X
  8. Schlock Mercenary: The Sharp End of the Stick . Hypernode Press: June 2012 ISBN 0-9835746-2-6
  9. Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic . Hypernode Press: August 2013. ISBN 978-0-9835746-4-4
  10. Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel . Hypernode Press: December 2014 ISBN 978-0-9835746-8-2
Short stories
  • Flight of the Runewright in Space Eldritch , Cold Fusion Media: December 2012 ISBN 978-1-4811-7831-0
  • Extraordinary Zoology . Privateer Press: July 2013, ISBN 978-1-939480-31-6 (short novel)
  • Heartfire in Called to Battle, Volume One . Privateer Press: September 2013
  • Fall of the Runewrought in Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars Cold Fusion Media: November 2013. ISBN 978-0-615-91859-4
  • Scrap Ante in Iron Kingdoms Excursions, Season One Volume Two . Privateer Press: March 2014. ISBN 978-1-939480-62-0
  • Mouths to Feed in Iron Kingdoms Excursions, Season One Volume Three . Privateer Press: April 2014. ISBN 978-1-939480-64-4
  • Call of the Caber in Iron Kingdoms Excursions, Season One Volume Five . Privateer Press: June 2014. ISBN 978-1-939480-68-2
  • An Honest Death in Shadows Beneath . Dragonsteel Entertainment: July 2014. ISBN 978-1-938570-03-2
  • Mind Over Matter in Called to Battle, Volume Two . Privateer Press: December 2014. ISBN 978-1-939480-80-4
role playing game
Non-fiction
  • Administering GroupWise 5.5 (with Ross Phillips and Tay Kratzer). McGraw-Hill: March 20, 2000. ISBN 0-07-212329-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Howard V. Tayler: Author, creator, and "artist" for Schlock Mercenary ( Memento from April 21, 2010 on WebCite )
  2. ↑ a b Michael Rigert: Orem cartoonist a rising figure in Web-comic world. Daily Herald , February 11, 2009; accessed February 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ Official website of Writing Excuses. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ 2001 Winners and Nominees . Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2001. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 21, 2010.
  5. ↑ 2004 Results . Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2004. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 21, 2010.
  6. ↑ 2005 Results . Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2005. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 21, 2010.
  7. ↑ 2007 Results . Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Committee. 2007. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 21, 2010.
  8. ↑ 2009 Hugo Awards . World Science Fiction Society . August 10, 2009. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 20, 2010.
  9. ↑ 2010 Hugo Award Nominees - details . World Science Fiction Society . April 4, 2010. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved on April 20, 2010.
  10. ^ A b Michael Hickerson: Hugo Nominees Announced . Slice of SciFi. April 25, 2011. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  11. ^ A b Ian Michael Strock: 2012 Hugo Award Final Ballot . SFScope. April 7, 2012. Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. Retrieved on April 10, 2012.
  12. ↑ 2013 Hugo Award Winners. Official website, accessed February 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tayler, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida , United States