Leland Purvis
Leland Purvis is a comic book writer and artist, best known for his black and white series Vóx and Pubo.
Leland Purvis
- Occupation
- cartoonist · comics artist
- Honours
- Xeric Award
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
As primary artist
As primary artist
• Suspended in language: Niels Bohr's life, discoveries, and the century he shaped (writer: Jim Ottaviani), G. T. Labs, 2004 • Shellgame (story, photography, and design by Marc Calvary; art by Leland Purvis), The Carbon Based Mistake • Resistance: Book One, (writer: Carla Jablonski), First Second Books (2010) • The Imitation Game (writer: Jim Ottaviani), Tor.com, 2014
As contributor
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
Identity
Identity
Leland Purvis is recorded as cartoonist and comics artist.
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
Documentary record
Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Portland, Oregon.
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 Foundation grant to support the creation of Vóx.
Documentary record
Leland Purvis appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a comics author and comics artist.
Literature
Literature
MicroRewiews by the Book Review Editor: Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped: Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis, The Physics Teacher, 2012
MicroReviews by the Book Review Editor: Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis, The Physics Teacher, 2004
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