1. Howard Tayler worked as a volunteer missionary for the LDS Church, then graduated from Brigham Young University.
11 Facts About Howard Tayler
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Howard Tayler quit his job at Novell several years later in order to work on the webcomic full-time.
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Howard 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.
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Howard Tayler co-founded an independent record label called Sanctus Records for the LDS market.
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Howard Tayler worked for Novell as a project manager, he co-authored a guide to administering GroupWise.
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Four years later, Howard Tayler left his job as product line manager at Novell to work full-time on the webcomic.
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Schlock Mercenary volume 20 finished in July 2020, and since then Howard Tayler's career has been slowed by health challenges.
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Howard Tayler produces Writing Excuses, along with novelist Mary Robinette Kowal, best-selling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and horror author Dan Wells.
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Howard Tayler won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards Best Cameo Award in 2001, and was nominated for Best Comic, Best Writing, Best Other Character, and Best Science-Fiction Comic the same year.
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Howard Tayler won WCCA Outstanding Science Fiction Comic in 2004, and was nominated for the same award in 2005 and 2007.
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Howard Tayler was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for Schlock Mercenary four times: The Body Politic ; The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse ; Massively Parallel, and Force Multiplication.