JOHN "HOSS" TAYLOR JR. is a cartoonist from Hebron, Maryland. He graduated from Salisbury University with a bachelor's degree in art. Hoss's work has been published in various literary magazines such as Echoes and Visions, Saturday Morning Comics, Chicago Literati, Chaleur Magazine, Inlandia: A Literary Journey,  Helen : a literary magazine, The Daily Drunk, Taco Bell Quarterly, Big Whoopie Deal, WrongdoingMagazine, Fleas on the Dog, Oddball Magazine, The Holy Flea, A Drunken Midsommar, 86 Logic, The Winnow Magazine, Little Old Lady Comedy, The Joe Bob Briggs Fanzine, The Lumiere Review, Wickerpedia, Dead Skunk Mag, Tattie Zine, and Xomik Bük. Hoss can be found at home with his wife Caitlin, their beagle Belle, and their daughter Sophia.