Roger Noel Cook
Roger Noel Cook (born 1946) is a British comics writer, musician and magazine publisher.
Biography
Cook began working at IPC Magazines in 1962, becoming a staff writer on TV Comic in 1964. He wrote for various series in TV Comic, including Doctor Who, Tom and Jerry and Popeye. His extensive work on the Doctor Who comic has led to him being described as the most prolific Doctor Who writer in any medium.[1]
While at IPC, Cook, on lead vocals, formed the band Stud Leather with Alan Kirkham on guitar. The rest of the band were Haydn Gridley on bass, Johnny Aldrich on drums and Dickie Graves on backing vocals. The band was signed to DART but split up after one single, "Cut Loose" which also featured Raphael Ravenscroft on saxophone (who later played the famous sax solo on Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street"). Cook then released a single with Alan Kirkham, "Slick Go-Getter", on DART, released October 1973.
Cook later became the UK CEO of Warner Bros.' publishing division at 24, before leaving to join lifelong friend Tony Power at Paul Raymond Publications. At Paul Raymond, Cook invented the first video men's magazine, Electric Blue, for which we also wrote and recorded most of the music, forming the band Broadsword for this purpose. Cook later worked for Richard Desmond, taking over Penthouse magazine.[1]
In 2004, Desmond commissioned Cook to write the first tabloid 3D picture strip, called "Big Shot", a soccer star soap.[1] Cook is currently working on a script for a graphic novel called "Guns 'n' Moses".[1]