Howard spent most of his happy childhood in Florida where he was on the swim team in grade school, and in a rock band in high school. He graduated in 1985 and moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young University.
After two years there, he served two years as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), after which he returned to school at BYU and decided to move to Provo permanently after graduating and getting married.
He currently works full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary, as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients.
This, the final volume of the Schlock Mercenary saga, brings the series to a very satisfying conclusion. Author Howard Tayler has achieved the remarkable feat of telling a continuing story over a twenty year period, with updates released every.single.day. of that time, creating many memorable characters and story lines.
In this final volume of the story (for now at least) Tayler brings together a great many threads developed over many years. We have the various members of Tagon's Toughs preparing to defend the galaxy against a threat from non-baryonic aliens from Andromeda. We have contact with aliens who have fled the galaxy to escape this threat. Most satisfying, we have Sergeant Schlock (whose role has been reduced in some of the more recent volumes) stepping - no, leaping - into the breach and saving two galaxies in a way that only he could do.
It's been a long time coming and has certainly been a wild ride. I'm already looking forward to reading it all again.