Biography

Cook began working at IPC Magazines in 1962, becoming a staff writer on TV Comic

TV Comic

TV Comic was a British comic book published weekly between November 9, 1951 and June 29, 1984 for 1,697 issues. With its bright, eye-catching covers, it featured stories based on television shows running at the time of publication. The first issue had 8 pages and had Muffin the Mule on the cover....

in 1964. He wrote for various series in TV Comic, including Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

, Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry

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and Popeye

Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...

. His extensive work on the Doctor Who comic has led to him being described as the most prolific Doctor Who writer in any medium.

While at IPC, Cook, on lead vocals, formed the band Stud Leather with Alan Kirkham on guitar. The rest of the band were Hayden 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". Cook then released a solo single, "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

Paul Raymond Publications

Paul Raymond Publications is a British men's softcore pornography publisher which releases ten pornographic magazine titles each month; Escort, Club International, Just Girls, Mayfair, Men Only, Men's World, Razzle, Swing Mag, Club DVD and Escort DVD.Paul Raymond had launched his first magazine,...

. 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

Richard Desmond

Richard Clive Desmond is an English publisher and businessman. He is the owner of Express Newspapers and founder in 1974 of Northern & Shell, which publishes various celebrity magazines, such as OK! and New!, and British national newspapers Daily Star and Daily Express...

, taking over Penthouse

Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...

magazine.

In 2004, Desmond commissioned Cook to write the first tabloid 3D picture strip, called "Big Shot", a soccer star soap. Cook is currently working on a script for a graphic novel called "Guns 'n' Moses".