Leland Purvis
Encyclopedia
Leland Purvis is a comic book writer and artist, best known for his black and white series Vóx and Pubo.
grant to support the creation of Vóx.
Awards
Purvis was nominated for the 2004 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for his work on Suspended in Language. He was also the recipient of a 2000 Xeric FoundationXeric Foundation
The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations...
grant to support the creation of Vóx.
As writer and artist
- Vóx #1-4 (of 4), Pack Rabbit Press, 2000-2003
- collected in Vox : collected works, 1999-2003, Absence of Ink Comics, 2004
- Pubo #1-3 (of 3), Dark Horse Comics, 2002-2003
- collected in Pubo, Dark Horse Comics, 2003
- Vulcan & Vishnu, a web-comic
As primary artist
- Suspended in language : Niels Bohr's life, discoveries, and the century he shaped (writer: Jim OttavianiJim OttavianiJim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, and several stories about physicist Richard Feynman...
), G. T. Labs, 2004 - The Carbon Rabbit #1 "Shellgame" (story, photography, and design by Marc Calvary; art by Leland Purvis), The Carbon Based Mistake
- Resistance: Book One, (writer: Carla Jablonski), First Second BooksFirst Second BooksFirst Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism.-History:...
(2010)
As contributor
- The Monon Street Power Collective 1, (Various artists and writers), Welsh El Dorado Press, 2004
- 24seven, (various artists and writers), Image Comics, 2006
- "The First Move" (writer: Elizabeth Genco) in Smut Peddler #3, Saucy Goose Press, 2006
External links
- Streetfables — "a venue for the self-published comics, zines and chapbooks of Leland Purvis and Elizabeth Genco".