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.

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 Ottaviani), 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 Books (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