Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More

Roots of the Swamp Thing: Your Portal to the Universe of Swamp Thing, The Un-Men and John Constantine: Hellblazer

• Part 1: Before Year 1
• Part 2: Year 1 to 1899
• Part 3: 1900 to 1969
• Part 4: 1970 to 1979
• Part 5: 1980 to 1984
• Part 6: 1985 to 1988
• Part 7: 1989 to 1991
• Part 8: 1992 to 1994
• Part 9: 1995 to 1999
• Part 10: 2000 to Present

Born on the Bayou
A history and introduction

Creature Features
Articles and feature stories

Cover Gallery
Judge the books by the covers

In the Swamplight
Issue-by-issue breakdowns

Elemental Lineage
Past lives and other entities

Upcoming Releases
Coming to a bog near you

What's New Bayou?
Archived news updates

About Me
Portrait of a swamp-nerd

Homepage
Go back to the roots

Contact Me
Comments, corrections & tubers

Thanks to Joe Bongiorno, who first dragged me kicking and screaming into the mucky mythos of Swamp Thing, and to Paul Giachetti, who created the amazing header banner.

Thanks also to reader 'Alec Holland,' whose support has been invaluable; Mike Sterling, for promoting Swamp Thing and this site; and Kevin Church, for his excellent optimization advice.

And thanks to Len Wein, Bernie Wrightson, Alan Moore, John Totelben, Stephen Bissette, Jamie Delano, Garth Ennis and all the other creators whose work inspired this site.

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Portrait of a Swamp Nerd:
Who Writes This Stuff, Anyway?

In case anyone is interested, here's some information about yours truly.

Thanks for taking the time to read about me, though I'm not sure you'll find me as interesting a subject as the rest of this site. My name is Rich Handley and I live in New York with my wife Jill and our two children, Emily and Josh. I grew up in the Poughkeepsie area of New York, though I've resided on Long Island since the early 1990s.

An editor and writer by trade, I have worked in the consumer and trade publication markets for years, and have been on the editorial team of RFID Journal, a magazine and daily website covering radio frequency identification, since 2005.

On the comics front, I've done some editing work for Realm Press's Battlestar Galactica series and Andromeda Press's short-lived First Wave title, and I also co-wrote a story with Darko Macan for Dark Horse's Star Wars Tales anthology. I was supposed to write a couple of Star Trek stories for Wildstorm Comics a few years back, but that company unfortunately lost the license before the stories were ever published. Most recently, I translated a series of long-lost Argentine comic books based on the Planet of the Apes television series from Spanish to English, for the Planet of the Apes Fan Club.

Elsewhere in the consumer-market side, I've written for most of Lucasfilm's licensed Star Wars publications—including Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Gamer, Dungeon/Polyhedron, Star Wars Fact Files, Topps' Star Wars Galaxy Collector and West End Games' Official Star Wars Adventure Journal. I was also been a reporter and columnist for Star Trek Communicator magazine from the mid-90s to its unfortunate demise in 2006.

Additionally, I've written for several other science fiction magazines, such as Cinefantastique, Wizard's Toons: The Animation Magazine and Sci-Fi Invasion! specials, and Cinescape.com. I've also reported for such Long Island newspapers as The Oyster Bay Guardian and The Port Washington Sentinel.

On the trade publication front, I've served as an editor on Advanced Imaging, AI Europe, VDV World, Quick Printing and Printing News, and as a writer for Health Products Business, Frozen Food Age, Kitchen and Bath Design, Low Voltage Contractor, Imaging Business, Photographic Processing and Wide-Format Imaging.

In terms of interests, I'm an unrepentent space nerd. Most genre-oriented forms of entertainment make my day, with Battlestar Galactica (both incarnations), Lost, Star Trek, Stargate: SG-1 Babylon 5 and Get Smart standing unchallenged as my all-time favorite television series. As for movies, any horror or sci-fi title is always fun, though I especially enjoy a good James Bond, Godzilla or Planet of the Apes adventure. It's my monthly Swamp Thing and Hellblazer doses, however, that get me by!

Feel free to e-mail me with any questions, feedback, anecdotes, corrections, insults or marriage proposals.

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