Swampmen Dissemble! Jon B. Cooke covets your bog! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Ande

Today's Guest: Jon B. Cooke, author of Swampmen: Muck-Monsters of the Comics and editor of Comic Book Creator magazine.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jon B. Cooke, author of Swampmen: Muck-Monsters of the Comics and editor of Comic Book Creator magazine, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of guys who will never accept that Adrienne Barbeau was not the real star of the 1982 Swamp Thing movie… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I can’t possibly explain why I loved Marvel’s “Man-Thing” comics of the 1970s so much.

The closest I can get would be to say that writer Steve Gerber – creator of the immortal Howard the Duck – had a flair for crazy and leave it at that.
JON B. COOKE podcast excerpt: "Swamp Thing or Man-Thing? Definitely Swamp Thing. He's resonate. It's a romance about a monster and a woman. It's just been transcendent. After all, that's what Alan Moore's version of the character is. And the origin of the character was based on one of the creators who was rather forlorn at the time and it was a perfect project to work out his sadness. The argument is, was it (writer) Len Wein or (artist) Bernie Wrightson? Len says it was Bernie; Bernie says it was Len!"
You can LISTEN to this interview with JON B. COOKE, author of SWAMPMEN: MUCK-MONSTERS OF THE COMICS, by clicking the audio player above!

And while Marvel had its Man-Thing, DC Comics had its “Swamp Thing” – similar to the naked eye, but completely different in style, execution and tone. Both characters were once humans whose lives went horribly wrong, but only Swamp Thing retained enough of his humanity to think like a man. As for Man-Thing, he operated entirely on emotions.

Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing’s touch!

When I heard that my old friend Jon B. Cooke had put together an entire book, Swampmen: Muck-Monsters and Their Makers,