Joined On: Aug 28, 2008
Last Online: Nov 01, 2009

Sean Taylor

is currently reading The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison, From Hell by Alan Moore.

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Location:

Alpharetta, GA

About Me:

Sean Taylor is a full-time writer of prose, graphic novels and comic books.

He's the writer of Gene Simmons Dominatrix by Simmons Comics Group published by IDW Publishing and has also written for Gene Simmons House of Horrors, also published by IDW. He's also currently writing the upcoming fantasy graphic novel Shan: Be My Hero for VLE Comics, the upcoming miniseries Last Chance School for Girls and Jesse James in the Mayan Underworld for Arcana Comics, and the ongoing title The Veil for Rogue Wolf Entertainment.

He's the former managing editor of Elfin graphic novels, where he oversaw the publication of graphic novels based on classic literature, world literature and historical biographies, as well as original works. For Elfin, he has written the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man and contributed to an upcoming Halloween-themed collection of stories, and he's currently writing an original sequel to The Invisible Man and The Time Machine.

Other projects of note that he's currently working on include Parodox Alley, a tie-in one-shot (featuring Fishnet Angel, Nick Landime, Phantom Jack and Cyberfrog) with the massive War of the Independents indy comic crossover, with his partners in that venture Erik Burnham and Mike Sangiacomo, Quinn: The Reckoning with artist/co-creator Martheus Wade, "Jennifer's Luggage" (a short comics tale) for Image's Negative Burn anthology, Jesus Manson, Agnostic at Large with artist Oliver Tria, an adaption of the cult-classic novel Less Than Human with author Gary Raisor and artist Douglas Draper Jr. and Gary's Graven Images novella/screenplay with artists Tony Guaraldi-Brown and Kariann Childs, Body Dumper with artist Taki Soma, Ace Robinson, Monster Killer for Hire: Turf War with co-creator/artist George Pitcher III, "Sweetly Felt the Dream" (a comics short) for Terminus Media, and a few others that aren't quite ready for public revelation as of yet.

In addition to all that, he's also been a staff writer, managing editor and editorial vice president for iHero Entertainment's Writer’s Digest Grand Prize Zine Award-winning Cyber Age Adventures magazine ("The very first zine award, as a matter of fact," he adds with great pride). He served as book editor and writer for the two iHero trade paperback collections A Private Little Corner of the Universe and Playing Solitaire.

He's also the former editor-in-chief of Shooting Star Comics, where he edited the critically acclaimed Children of the Grave comics series and edited and contributed to the fan favorite Shooting Star Comics Anthology, and was creator and author of the Fishnet Angel: Jane Doe comic book miniseries.

As if he weren't already overworked and exhausted, he's also written and edited for the role-playing game industry as well, having contributed to the DCU Role Playing Game published by West End Games (Gotham City Sourcebook, Titans Sourcebook, and Green Lantern Sourcebook) and having edited the Cyber Age Adventures Role Playing Game.

He's the former editor for the Baptist Men Edition of On Mission magazine and the former associate editor of On Mission magazine, and during his tenure on the magazine's staff, it won an EPA Higher Goals award (a religious publishing version of a Folio, basically). He has won several awards for his periodical work, and has contributed articles and book and music reviews to such national periodical publications as Inside the Lines, Home Life, Church Administration, CCM, CBA Marketplace (formerly Bookstore Journal), and others.

Achievements:

Writer's Digest Zine Publishing Grand Prize, iHero Entertainment's Cyber Age Adventures magazine, 2000
EPA Award of Excellence, On Mission Magazine, Missionary Category,1999
EPA Award of Merit, On Mission Magazine, Missionary Category, 2000
BCA Wilmer C. Field Award, 1st place, Feature Article Category, 1999
BCA Wilmer C. Field Award, 2nd place, Advertising/Printed Promotional Materials Category, 1999
EPA Higher Goals Award, 3rd place, Photo Feature, 1998
Gold Medallion Award, Finalist Judge, Inspirational Category, 1992-2002
Kennesaw State University, Fiction Writing Award First Prize, 1993
Kennesaw State University, Fiction Writing Award Third Prize, 1994

Favorites

Authors:

John Fischer, Annie Dillard, Shusako Endo, Philip Yancey, Richard Heinlein, Ed McBain, Francis Schaeffer, Stephen R. Donaldson, the Wildcard series, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Chuck Dixon, Mike Baron, Steve Seagle, Neil Gaimon and Ernest Hemingway.

Books:

The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, What's So Amazing About Grace?, The Adventures of Monkey, Blue Like Jazz, Making Real What I Already Believe, Slaughterhouse 5, I Will Fear No Evil, Camelot 3000

Interests:

Playing with my kids, hanging out with my wife, steamed green beans with almonds, B-grade horror and sci-fi movies, anime, comic books, manga, John Cusack films, Dr. Who, redheads, women in stockings, Scooby Doo (classic, though, not the Scrappy crap), jazz, funk, rock, electronica (love trance particularly), the thin patch of a woman's skin between a tall boot and a knee-length skirt, BBC America, Sci-Fi Channel, pondering the existential angst of religious thought and longing, wasting time on Live Journal, cheesecake (the food and the art style).

Periodicals:

Rolling Stone, Books & Culture, Interview, Newsweek

Quotes:

Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
-- Clarence Darrow

The church is only the church when it exists for others.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The works of God are appreciated best by other creators.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

Well, I don't think that this is it, you know -- this life ain't nothing ... If you believe in this world, you're stuck; you really don't have a chance. You'll go mad, 'cause you won't see the end of it. You may want to stick around, but you won't be able to.
-- Bob Dylan

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
-- Bob Dylan

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