In 2005 he became the head artist for the Vertigo series Swamp Thing, drawing 22 issues till 2007.
Many cartoonists and comic book creators eschew phonetic eye dialects in favor of font changes or distinctive speech balloons – Swamp Thing, for example, has traditionally been depicted using "crusty" yellow speech balloons and dialogue heavily laced with ellipses, suggesting a gravelly voice that only speaks with great effort.
Lapinski has credited the non-literal coloring of old Vertigo comics such as Swamp Thing with influencing the graphic novel’s look and feel.
The basic principle or the memory RNA was also used by comic book writer Alan Moore to explain the origin of DC Comics' character the Swamp Thing in Saga of the Swamp Thing #21.
The show panned and scanned silver age DC Comics such as Green Lantern, Swamp Thing, Sugar and Spike, The Flash, Adam Strange, Nutsy Squirrel, The Three Mousketeers, Doodles Duck, and The Atom.
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He has worked on numerous limited edition movie posters for Alamo Drafthouse for such iconic films as the Holy Mountain, Hellboy, the Evil Dead,Night of the living dead, Santa Sangre, the Swamp Thing, Hellraiser and Cowboys and Aliens.
Significant to the course content were the interviews with prominent comic book creators: Terry Moore author of Strangers in Paradise; Mark Waid, writer for Superman; Kelly Sue DeConnick, Steve Wacker, and Sana Amanant, creators of the new Captain Marvel; Gail Simone author of Secret Six; Scott Snyder author of Swamp Thing; and Brian K. Vaughn author of Y: The Last Man.
She has made guest appearances on some TV shows, among them Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, Fudge, Columbo, Swamp Thing, 240 Robert, Murder, She Wrote, and Diagnosis: Murder.
At the conclusion of the miniseries Brightest Day, Swamp Thing appears, grown to towering size and emerging from the forest at the former heart of Star City, which has become corrupted.
Garrison's entertainment career has included the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, Swamp Thing and TV 101, and work in two TV Movies, Death Train and Liebestraum.
She is later born in Swamp Thing #90 (1989) as Tefé, named after Tefé, the location of the Brazilian river source and, in the DC Universe, home of the Parliament of Trees.
This relationship is revealed in Swamp Thing (fourth series) #9 (2005), the first issue in the series to be written by Joshua Dysart.