Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | Howard Tayler

I was born in Florida on February 29, 1968, and spent most of my happy childhood there (the above-right picture may not seem to indicate a happy childhood - don't be fooled). I was on the swim team in grade school, and in a rock band in high school. I graduated from Riverview High in 1985, and moved to Utah for schooling at Brigham Young University. After two years there I served two years as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the mormons). Following that, I went back to school at BYU, and I decided to move to Provo permanently after I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Music Composition and got married.

I currently work full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary, as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients. I quit my job for Novell, where I was the Collaboration Product Line Manager, in September of 2004. And while we're on the subject of things I used to do, I used to be on the Board of Directors at Sanctus Records, an independent record label I co-founded, and which I've since sold and watched disintegrate under the misministrations of those I turned it over to. I used to dabble in web design, but I'm so far behind the cutting edge these days there's no point in even bringing up what I used to do.

I am married to Sandra Tayler, and we have somewhere between three and five children, none of whom have consented to appear on this page. I may mention them from time to time in the Open Letters or in my Live Journal, but that's about it.. .

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Schlock Cover for Dec 2006 Full Story From: Howard Taylor of Schlock Mercendary provides our cover for Issue number 4. Thanks Howard. Visit Schlock Mercendary now at http://www.schlockmercenary.com.