Atomeka Press
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Atomeka Press is a publisher of comic books set up in 1988 by Dave Elliot and Garry Leach.
[edit] History
Atomeka was set up to be a company where each creator would have complete freedom to do what they want, as well as owning the rights of their creations. Their first title, A1, was an anthology title featuring works from the likes of Ted McKeever, Alan Moore, Glenn Fabry, and Simon Bisley. The first issue was published in 1988 and proved to be popular thanks to the talent working in the series. It also published spin-offs of Warrior such as the Bojeffries Saga and Warpsmith, written by Alan Moore with art by Garry Leach.
During the 1990s, it carried on publishing A1, as well as related specials. They also published much of Simon Bisley's creator owned work during this period in titles such as Monster Massacre.
In 1997, it ceased publishing work as Elliot and Leach went off to do other things.
In 2004 they resurrected the company in cooperation with Ross Richie, publishing A1 Big Issue Zero, Bricktop, Mister Monster: Worlds War Three, and Stalkers, featuring a mix of reprint material. Richie generated his own new projects under the Atomeka banner, such as Hero Squared and G.I. Spy as well as new work from the likes of Mike Mignola with Jenny Finn. The team-up didn't last long, as Richie left to form his own company, Boom! Studios, taking Squared, Spy, and Finn with him.
In late 2004 the A1 Sketchbook was released in part by original Miracleman penciler Garry Leach and Atomeka Press. 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.
In 2005 they published a 3-part re-issue of Ted McKeever's Eddy Current, and also one (of three planned) "Bojeffries Terror Tomes", reprinting The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse, and featuring additional work by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, Ramsey Campbell and David Lloyd, Michael T. Gilbert and Dave Dorman, Warren Ellis and Steve Pugh, and also including Ted McKeever's Eddy Current and a solo tale of Eddy Current's Nun.
