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Miracleman#2, art by Garry Leach.

Garry Leach is a British comics artist and publisher.

Leach 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.

Comics work includes

• M.A.C.H. 1 (in 2000 AD 1979 Sci-Fi Special)
• Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 138, 1979)
• The V.C.s (in 2000 AD # 141, 145, 148-149, 154-155, 161-162, 165 & 168, 1979-80)
• Joe Black (in 2000 AD # 215, 1981)
• Marvelman (in Warrior # 1-3 & 5-7, 1982)
• Warpsmith (in Warrior # 9-10, 1983)
• Zirk (in Warrior # 13, 1983).
• Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 492, 1986)
• Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 513 & 520, 1987)

• 2000AD website profile
• Atomeka Press website