Howard Tayler - Definition and Overview

Howard Tayler is the creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary. Born February 29 1968 in Florida. In 1985 he moved to Utah (where he still resides) to attend Brigham Young University. After two years, he did a two year stint as a missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before returning to BYU and finishing a Bachelor's degree in Music Composition. He co-founded an independant record label called Sanctus Records, which was aimed primarily at an LDS market. He has recentlly (as of January 2005) left his job as Collaboration Product Line Manager at Novell, Inc. in order to work full time on his webcomic.

Howard Tayler is outstanding among webcartoonists in that he has been running his comic seven days a week for over four years, producing over 1000 strips, and he has never missed a daily update yet.