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My wife, Lisa, is the one to blame for it. Yes, it's her fault. Sure, I'd written some stuff in elementary school and high school, but never seriously considered trying to make a career out of it (that's pie in the sky, right?) until she had the audacity to tell me I should go for it and that I had talent. So I did.
Books
Writing
is not a visual art. It is a symphony, not an oil painting. It is
A
Private Little Corner of the Universe Review: "A Private Little Corner of the Universe is edited by Sean Taylor and includes stories by Tom Waltz, Bill Purcell, and Sean Taylor. We are introduced to heroes who must deal with some of the scariest villains ever to exist -- the inhuman concepts of drug abuse, rape, failure, and death. These villains don’t have capes and boots and doomsday devices, but they are as sinister and pervasive as a foe could be. "But
the book isn’t all grimness and gloom. The accidental
transsexual, tagged with the moniker Fishnet [Angel] by a
reporter, makes for an amusing look at what can happen when one is
in the wrong place at the wrong time, and how the press can be as
exasperating as a rash. The book is also about love, and the story
'Once Upon a Time' in which the superheroine Starlight must face
any parent’s worst fear, stands out to me as a piece that is at
once chilling and emotional."
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Comics
Here's
the formula: Take a sonneteer, add a dramatist, Reviews
The
lynchpin title of the line, Dominatrix, admittedly, on the
surface, seems to be just the sort of trashy, ridiculous tripe one
might expect from a celebrity-inspired comic. But it’s also, as
indicated by a fellow reviewer over at Ain’t it Cool News.com,
“mindless fun”. Spotlighting a surprisingly homebody girl
named Dominique, who moonlights as a professional dominatrix (her
studio’s in her basement), the series chronicles an accidental
stumble into one of her client’s over-the-top world of black
ops. In order to survive, she’s given a super-power enhancing
drug that grants her strength, speed, and a spidy(sic)-sense-like
early-warning ability. Including ninjas, mercenaries, super-spies,
and a super-secret something that everyone seems to be gunning
for, Dominatrix manages to focus on the sex, the inconsistent
taboos of society, character development, and yet never once
subsists in its ridiculous rillet of B-genre situations. It’s a
comic chock-full of action and long-loved elements, though its
subject matter, of course, marks this as not for children. Writer
Sean Taylor (author of The Veil and Last Chance School for Girls)
pens a highly likable Dominique, though he sometimes overplays the
asinine elements of the villains. Nevertheless, four issues have
come and gone and…I’m…my god, but I think I’m hooked on a
comic called “Dominatrix.”... So a series that far surpassed
my (I confess) rock bottom expectations, but did so in such a
stellar way that I think I’m onboard for the foreseeable future. From Ain't It Cool News With all of that in mind, I feel like I ought to admit up front that Dominatrix is not my normal thing. After all, Mr. Simmons described his book as “T&A meets the CIA” in IDW’s promo literature, whereas I tend to go for more of the pseudo-intellectual stuff—and Danger Girl. But I’ll say this about Dominatrix: it’s a Hell of a lot smarter than I thought it would be. I was expecting a nonsensical Brian Pulido-esque boobathon, but in fact, this is a story that’s entirely sensible, well-crafted, and basically a heck of a lot of fun right from the start... And this is a cool story, sort of reminiscent of the movie They Live but with a hot chick in the Rowdy Roddy Piper role, and I’m intrigued to see what happens next. Honestly, the number of comics that I actually buy based on review copies that I’m sent is very, very close to zero percent, but in this case I think I’m gonna make an exception just because I happened to enjoy this book a whole bunch. I really want to know what’s going on. And hey, if that’s not a ringing endorsement, then I don’t know what is. From Paperback Reader Now, let’s be honest here…part of the appeal of this comic is a dominatrix superhero. This first issue does suffer from the perils of many a first issue, such as too much foreshadowing, but not enough action. There’s a bit of action and plenty of character development, but I can excuse it here because it’s a story of political intrigue. As Gene Simmons says, “it’s T&A meets CIA”. Hoffe’s art is fast, dynamic, and sexy supporting the concept of a dominatrix superhero. Alex Garner's cover is beautiful and eye catching. Sean Taylor has already created a character we find interesting and care about, and plenty of mystery and intrigue. I would have, admittedly, preferred a longer first issue to get to know Dominique a little better, but we have a decent first issue here. From The Blog Monster Many people, understandingly so, were put off by the hefty price tag on Gene Simmons' House Of Horrors. Although you get 64 pages of incredible story and art, $9.99 is a serious commitment! Today, IDW and Simmons Comics Group introduce the Dominatrix! At a much lower price tag, Dominatrix is not so much a commitment as it is a guilty pleasure. Dominique Stern is an average girl who has a pretty boring life until she dons the leather, the whips and the attitude of a dominatrix. Typical yes, but what happens when she uncovers a plot that the United States is in grave danger? She gets involved as any red blooded American girl wearing a leather hood would do... SHE FIGHTS BACK! Writer Sean Taylor tells a story you would expect from Gene Simmons! Tantalizing and witty with a touch of family values (if this family is incredibly dysfunctional). Flavio Hoffe is an artistic star on the rise! He blends pin up beauty with butt kicking action and um... adult relations involving handcuffs. As a longtime Kiss fan and a student (but not a follower) of Gene Simmons philosophy, there is no reason you won't enjoy this comic. It's fun and doesn't take itself too serious. Comics aren't supposed to change the world, just give it something to read! From Matman, Secret Identity News Created by Gene Simmons (yes, of KISS), this is the story of a professional dominatrix that gets dragged into an X-Filesian world of conspiracies due to a client that tells her too much. Oh, and she gets super powers. Rare in the fact that it portrays someone that is into s/m as, gasp, a fairly normal person, I’m curious to see how this series shapes up. So far it’s off to a decent start with writing that can jump from funny to scary and back again, and artwork that is the right amount of cheesecake and superhero for the genre niche it is attempting to find. From Zodarzone
Sean
Taylor’s story, “Nymph”, was a classic horror story with a
twist, in which an environmentalist comes face to face with a
spirit of the Earth while searching for her missing husband.
Creative and fun, it delivers.
"In
the hands of a less able writer the multi levels going on here
would prove to be too much and so it is a tribute to the writing
abilities of Sean Taylor that the story develops and works as well
as it does. The pace is perfect and the character/reader confusion
is well maintained. It borders on, but is always prevented from,
becoming too bewildering. ... As I have already said this is a
masterful piece of story telling, original, creative and
controlled. The fact that we actually identify with Mark and the
rest of the characters who inhabit his female body is a testimony
to how well written this tale is."
"Sean
Taylor & JP Dupras' '38 Hours' has strong inflections of ASTRO
CITY." The
editors of Shooting Star are smart, though, in opening and closing
the book with their strongest stories. "38 Days" by Sean
Taylor and J.P. Dupras is a story that reads not unlike an Astro
City tale, about a super-criminal who breaks out 38 days before
his release to chase down some mysterious goal. It's not a
completely unpredictable ending, nor a story structure I've never
seen before, but Taylor makes Strongarm, his lead sympathetic, and
Dupras' artwork is very effective, with a sort of sketchy stylized
background style that I quite liked. Of all the creators in this
book, these are the two guys who look like they could become
polished mainstream creators. "Also
enjoyable were Scott Rogers's "Bedbug" -- a Tick-esque
super-hero piece -- and writer Sean Taylor and artist J.P.
Dupras's "38 Days," which puts one in mind of Kurt
Busiek's Astro City." [The]
treat of the issue may be Sean Taylor & George Pitcher's
"Ace Robinson," which is pretty well-drawn, and they
manage to not overplay the joke of a vampire hunter with a
baseball bat and it's got a decent twist. Stories I've written:
Stories I've lettered:
Comic Books I've edited:
Magazines
Periodicals I'm written for or edited include: On Mission, Baptist Men Edition of On Mission, CCM, CBA Marketplace (formerly Bookstore Journal), Home Life, Inside the Lines, Alpharetta Revue, and more.
Awards
and Honors
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The
Gotham City Sourcebook
The
Titans Sourcebook
Baptist
Men On Mission Planbook 1999-2000
GENE
SIMMONS DOMINATRIX
GENE
SIMMONS HOUSE OF HORRORS
FISHNET
ANGEL: JANE DOE
SHOOTING
STAR COMICS ANTHOLOGY
"The
anthology ends on up notes, though, with Sean Taylor, Loraine
Sammy & Luis Alonso's "Passing In The Night," a
superhero comic that transforms into a romance tearjerker, with
the sort of romantic twist Stan [Lee] used to put in his
comics..."
"Power,"
Shooting Star Comics Anthology #1 -- 2002
"Idol
Hands," Shooting Star Comics Anthology #4 --
2004
Shooting
Star Comics Anthology #2,
Shooting Star Comics 2002