Garry Leach

Infobox Comics creator

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Garry Leach is a British comics artist and publisher.

Biography

Leach studied Graphic Design at St. Martin's School of Art. He was first noted for his early work for 2000 AD, this mainly was on one-off stories featuring "Dan Dare" and "M.A.C.H. 1". He then became a fan-favourite for his work on the series "The VCs".

In 1981 he joined Dez Skinn's company, Quality Communications. Here he served as art director as well as being the first artist on Alan Moore's revival of "Marvelman" in "Warrior". His work on "Marvelman" proved to be highly popular but due to his slow pace of working, he left art duties and was replaced by Alan Davis. For Davis' first few stories Leach worked as inker to allow Davis to settle into the strip.

Leach and Alan Moore also created "Warpsmith" for "Warrior" together. "Warpsmith" featured in its own strip as well as eventually being a supporting character in "Marvelman". Leach and Dave Elliot set up Atomeka Press in 1988 and their first title was the anthology title, "A1" which included new "Warpsmith" material by Moore and Leach.

After Atomeka and "A1" finished in the mid-1990s, Leach worked mainly in advertising jobs but returned to comics in the late 1990s as John McCrea's inker on "Hitman". He also drew the first issue of Warren Ellis's series "Global Frequency", as well as designing many of that titles characters. He also continues to contribute inking work to "2000AD", most recently on "Future Shorts" with Rufus Dayglo.

He has also returned to publishing and has restarted Atomeka Press with Dave Elliot. "A1" is being published again and includes a mix of old and new material, including new work by Leach. The "A1 Sketchbook" was released in late 2004 and it contained four Miracleman-related pin-ups (although the pin-ups were not directly said to be Miracleman for possible legal reasons). A variant of the sketchbook was also produced, and it featured a Miracleman front cover and Kid Miracleman back cover by Leach.

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

*"Tharg's Future Shocks":
** "The Juggernaut" (with Hunter Tremayne, in "2000 AD" #58, 1978)
** "Cold Kill" (with Mike Cruden, in "2000 AD" #94, 1979)
** "Easy Kill" (art and script, in "2000 AD" #205, 1981)
** "Bloomin' Cold" (with Kelvin Gosnell, in "2000 AD" #215, 1981)
** "They Sweep the Spaceways" (with Alan Moore, in "2000 AD" #219, 1981)
** "Scrambled Eggs" (with Alan Hebden, in "2000 AD" #226, 1981)

*"Dan Dare":
** "The Doomsday Machine" (with Henry Miller (1-3), Nick Landau (4-5) and shared art duties with Trevor Goring, in "2000 AD" #79-84, 1978)
** "Visco" (art and script, in "2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1978")

*"M.A.C.H. 1": "The Taxaco Venture" (with Gary Rice, in "2000 AD 1979 Sci-Fi Special")

*"Judge Dredd":
** "The Day the Law Died" (with John Wagner, in "2000 AD" #104, 1979)
** "Night of the Bloodbeast" (with John Wagner, in "2000 AD" #138, 1979)
** "Attack of the 50 ft. Woman" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, in "2000 AD" # 492, 1986)
** "The Comeback" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, in "2000 AD" #513, 1987)
** "Ten Years On" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant, in "2000 AD" #520, 1987)
** "Oz" (with John Wagner/Alan Grant and collaborating on art, as K. Edward, with Will Simpson/Dave Elliott, in "2000 AD" #547-548, 1987)

*"The V.C.s" (with Gerry Finley-Day, in "2000 AD" #141, 145, 148-149, 154-155, 161-162, 165 & 168, 1979-1980)
*"Marvelman" (with Alan Moore, in "Warrior" # 1-3 & 5-7, 1982)

* "Warpsmith" (with Alan Moore):
** "Cold War, Cold Warrior" (in "Warrior" #9-10, January-May 1983)
** "Ghostdance" (in "A1", 1989, ISBN 1-871878-05-5)

*"Zirk" (in "Warrior" # 13, 1983)
*"Whatever Happened To?": "Tweak" (inks, with Pat Mills and pencils by Chris Weston, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #214, 2004)
*"Future Shorts": "A Sound of Intergalactic Thunder" (inks, with Al Ewing and pencils by Rufus Dayglo, in "2000 AD" #1449, 2005)
*"The Twelve" #1-6 (inks, with writer J. Michael Straczynski and pencils by Chris Weston, Marvel Comics, March-August 2008)

References

*"Early Artwork": "Garry Leach" ("The Daredevils" #1, 1981)

External links

* [http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=GARRYL 2000AD website profile]
* [http://www.atomekapress.com/ Atomeka Press website]