His comic book career started on January 2nd 1986, 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 1986 for the much-loved kids comic, Oink and has worked for Whizzer & Chips, Gas, Brain Damage, UT, Casper, Action Man, and LEGO Adventures. His strips, The Driver and Dinner Ladies From Hell in the cult British 1990 comic, Toxic! led to him writing and drawing: The Toxic Crusaders (issue #8) for Marvel US.
For Marvel UK he wrote for and edited Rugrats, Beavis & Butt-head, Ren & Stimpy, and Glam Metal Detectives. Currently, David is the Senior Creative Editor at Titan Comics, where he edits various titles including Blade Runner, The Phantom of the Opera, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Hagar, and Peanuts.
He wrote and edited several newspaper comic strips including Ren & Stimpy, Spider-Man, and Wallace and Gromit for: The Sun, The News of the World, The Sunday Times, and The Saturday Telegraph and has also written gags for Private Eye.
David currently publishes, an eclectic range of his own titles that includes: Psycho Gran Versus, Psycho Gran Cavalcade, David Leach Conquers the Universe, Dinner Ladies from Hell, and Monolith: Adventures in Hollywood.
Outside of comics, in 2014 David won Channel Four’s Come Dine with Me.
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