David’s career as a cartoonist, writer and editor spans over 39 years, when at the age of 23 he started working as British animator, Bob Godfrey’s ‘ghost artist’ drawing Henry’s Cat comic strips.
He created his most popular character, Psycho Gran in 1987 for the much-loved kids comic, Oink. He’s also worked for Whizzer & Chips, Gas, Brain Damage, UT, Casper, Action Man, and LEGO Adventures. His work in the cult British 1990 comic, Toxic! (where he co-created The Driver, and created The Dinner Ladies From Hell), which led to him writing and drawing: The Toxic Crusaders (issue #8) for Marvel US.
He has written and edited newspaper comic strips of Ren & Stimpy, Spider-Man and Wallace, and Gromit for a variety of newspapers including: The Sun, The News of the World, The Sunday Times, The Saturday Telegraph and has also written for Private Eye.
David is the Senior Creative Editor at Titan Comics, where he edits titles as varied as Blade Runner, Rivers of London, and the Conan and Savage Sword of Conan Omnibus editions, The Phantom of the Opera, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Prisoner, Dan Dare, Fighting American, Anno-Dracula, The Blacklist, Captain Kronos, Hammer’s The Mummy, and Adventure Time. He also edits Titan Comics’ vintage range of comic titles including Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Elric and Peanuts.
David currently publishes, through Dead Universe Comics, an eclectic range of his own titles that includes: Psycho Gran Versus, Psycho Gran Comic Capers Cavalcade, his autobiographical comic – David Leach Conquers the Universe, Dinner Ladies From Hell, and Monolith: Adventures in Hollywood. Psycho Gran currently appears in David Lloyd’s digital comic anthology Aces Weekly.
Outside of comics, in 2014 David won Channel Four’s Come Dine with Me.
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