Garry Leach Archives

Garry Leach, co-creator of the modern-day Miracleman, died two months ago, at the age of 67 Today, one of his favourite comic book stores, Gosh Comics in Soho, London, for whom he designed their original logo, hosted his estate sale Gosh Comics stated; A voracious comics fan, over the years Garry amassed a huge collection of books and[...]

Garry Leach, co-creator of the modern-day Miracleman, died a month ago, at the age of 67 On Sunday, the 29th of March, one of his favourite comic book stores, Gosh Comics, based in Soho, London, for whom he designed their original logo, will be hosting his estate sale Gosh Comics states; A voracious comics fan, over[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Image: Netflix LITG: Marvel's printing and the ten most-read stories, yesterday The Umbrella Academy S03: Elliot Page Introduces Viktor Hargreeves Magic The Gathering's New Hidden Planeswalker Debuts In First Issue Supreme Court Delivers Blow To Estate of Steve Ditko And Others Buffy: Sarah Michelle Gellar & Charisma Carpenter Talk "Angel" Spinoff Legends[...]

Bleeding Cool has received multiple reports of the death of comic book creator Garry Leach over the past few days, but the very sad news been announced today An Eisner and Eagle Award winner, Garry Leach first worked in comic books in the seventies for 2000AD, including Dan Dare, M.A.C.H 1 and The V.C.s[...]

But they are also going to collect the entire Alan Moore/Garry Leach/Alan Davis/Chuck Austen/Rick Veitch/John Totleben run in an omnibus form. That means the original Warrior Magazine stories, including the story from the Marvelman Summer Special They will also include the additional scenes included in the Eclipse Miracleman issues The Warpsmiths story by Garry Leach from[...]

Donny Cates Watch! Yesterday, Bleeding Cool "reported" that Donny Cates has tweeted out his latest acquisition at New York Comic Con, saying "I might have just f-cked around and bought the original art to MIRACLEMAN #1" adding "I almost had a heart attack when I saw it for sale." Donny Cates Didn't Buy Miracleman #1 Cover[...]

He tweeted his latest acquisition, saying "I might have just f-cked around and bought the original art to MIRACLEMAN #1." Donny Cates Bought Miracleman #1 Cover Bryan Hitch replied "Ah Garry Leach Wonderful piece."  Donny Cates confirmed "Isn't it? I almost had a heart attack when I saw it for sale." Bryan Hitch added, "Had a big[...]

Here are details of the main exhibitors, but there's also Dave Gibbons, Garry Leach, Shaky Kane, Brian Bolland, and more. Billy Chainsaw is an internationally collected, British contemporary Pop artist whose work uses a fertile mix of pulp and the arcane to engage with ideas of mortality, magick and sensuality Through his transformative art Chainsaw has developed a personal[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 15 most-read stories yesterday Which JJ Abrams Reveal Will Be More Shocking to Spider-Man Fans? (Spoilers) Is DC Comics Using the Same Plot as House Of X Again? Year Of The Villain: Lex Luthor #1 Spoilers "Saw," "Friday the 13th" & "300" Counterfeits Bring Fall of Funko[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: When Scott Snyder Will End Justice League – and What Grant Morrison Told Him Was Beyond The Source Wall Marvel Sends Seed Packets to Comic Stores Promoting Jonathan Hickman's House and Powers Of X Marvel Shocker: Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider Relaunched in August Superman: Year[...]

But the liquidated price, even with a reasonable retailer mark-up will be an absolute bargain for a remastered version of one of the best superhero comic books of al time, by masters of the form in Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Alan Davis and Rick Veitch. And once Marvel have emptied their warehouses, that will be it[...]

In 1984, Marvelman was behind on its schedule for Warrior magazines. Fearing newstand distributor disatisfaction, Dez Skinn got writer Alan Moore to write

So, yes, there are two digital versions of Miracleman #1 from Marvel on ComiXology. A Mass Market version and a Parental Advisory version. The first is

Well that was a fun evening. Here's the resulting video, taken at Orbital Comics in London, yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipMl39_7XQ

Garry Leach seemed rather bemused by the news earlier today (video coming soon). How the digital version is going to cope with the graphic childbirth issue, I have no idea… here's Lance Parkin, author of Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore suggestion for Bleeding Cool.   Marvelman/Miracleman has a history of people trying to sensor[...]

Ten to fifteen minutes late, apparently. At the Will Simpson event here last week, Steve Cook recalled Garry Leach's birthday party in 1983 in which Garry spend the entire time upstairs drawing Marvelman with Dez Skinn standing over him, to get the pages done on time… More photos from Hannah Means Shannon as we await… Updating…[...]

This morning I talked to a shop assistant at Orbital Comics who was reading Miracleman for the first time. Because, today sees the publication of Miracleman #1, by Alan Moore and Garry Leach Originally published as Marvelman in the pages of Warrior Magazine, it was a revival of the believed-abandoned British ripoff of Captain Marvel from[...]

Wednesday 15th January Orbital Comics: Miracleman #1 signing with artist/co-writer Garry Leach, from 5pm. And from 6pm… Si Spurrier signing Numbercruncher at Forbidden Planet. Thursday 16th Creating a Graphic Novel (six week course run by Simone Lia) begins 57 Arts, 57 Loampit Hill London SE13 7SZ. This practical and informal course is for anyone who would like to explore their[...]

Alan Davis' art there, just uploaded to Amazon for the collection of Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying, out later in 2014. I do like that Amazon

    Marvel Comics are publishing a remastered version of Miracleman from January, by Alan Moore The Original Writer, Mick Anglo, Garry Leach, Alan Davis, Chuck Austen, Rick Veitch, Rick Totleben, Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham We might have mentioned it once or twice. Eventually. Here's a look at the new work, Garry Leach's art, recoloured[...]

  Some people read Dave Elliot and Garry Leach's A1 anthologies when they came out I wasn't one of them I was reading Silver Surfer The closest I came to A1 was The Sleeze Brothers It was only when I was around 19 that I realised I was missing out and had to track them down[...]

Money raised will go towards the HERO Initiative charity that helps out ex-comic book creators in real need. The Popeye piece was freshly painted/printed/stenciled, the black was still wet when it went up. Pete Hogan, author of the current Tom Strong comic published by Vertigo, and Garry Leach, kingmaker of Marvelman. Rian Hughes and one of[...]

CORPORATION DELAWARE 1600 Rosecrans Avenue Manhattan Beach CALIFORNIA 90266 Attorney of Record Eli Bard Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL Live/Dead Indicator LIVE Marvel Comics paid the late Mick Anglo a million dollars for his rights to Marvelman, but Todd McFarlane's trademark ownership of Miracleman had been a bit of a sticking point. No longer it seems. Could this be leading to a final, long awaited,[...]

For the fourth (I think) time. Originally spinning out of Dave's time at Quality Communications working on Warrior, he and Garry Leach created Atomeka, to publish A1, containing the creator owned work of Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Brian Bolland, Warren Ellis, Steve Pugh, Ted McKeever, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Phil Winslade and many more, in a[...]

The TPB collection of Image Comics' The Marksman will contain a new four page prologue by Dave Elliott that didn't appear in the original series, out next

Woo.... A commission piece by Chris Weston there. Woo...

And making it a San Diego 2010 Exclusive. Negotiations over the rights to the Alan Moore/Garry Leach/Alan Davis/Chuck Austen/Rick Vietch/Jon Totleben/Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham run on the book from the nineteen eighties have still not been fully nailed down, so the odds are that the character will be based on the original Mick Anglo designs rather than[...]

A glance at the roster of talent involved is enough to take the breath away, and it should be remembered that a whole generation of readers was able to pick up almost any given issue and see a dozen of these guys at their very best. So thank you: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day, Alan[...]