David Leach

After originally leaving college back in 1984 David worked in the animation industry as a ghost artist and assistant animator for the legendary Bob Godfrey - Oscar winning creator of Henry's Cat, Rhubarb and Custard and Henry 9-5.

David went freelance and spent the next 6 years working as a freelance cartoonist and writer for a variety of publications and publishing houses creating mainly humour based strips and characters including: Arthur Pilkington Chartered Barbarian, Psycho Gran, Edith Appleby: OAP Warrior. In 1989 he was co-creator The Driver for British cult comic Toxic! and followed that with The Dinner Ladies From Hell. His work got spotted by Marvel US and both he and his - then working partner, Banx - were hired to write and draw a comic based on the Troma animated show - The Toxic Crusaders. A regular title and spin off 4 part mini series were produced although only the regular title issue appeared - becoming the very first Comic Code stamped Marvel comic to feature a man sat on the toilet, having a poo.

With the partial collapse of the American comic book scene in the tail end of the 80's, David moved editorially - becoming an editor at Marvel UK where his experience of humour saw him launching and editing such TV humour based titles as Ren & Stimpy, Beavis and Butt-head and Rugrats - a fully originated title that was to be reprinted around the world.

For the next four years David worked for Marvel before once again going freelance working for practically every youth publisher in the country and launching the successful Lego Adventures magazine.

As the millennium approached David made a decision to pursue a long cherished dream of becoming an animator. He won at place at the prestigious Central St. Martins school of art in London to study 2D animation and won a distinction. On leaving college David was approached by Codemasters and hired as a 3D animator to work on that company's aborted Snowboarding game before moving to the Hoodoo studio to work on Codemaster’s two football titles - LMA and Club Football. He single handily produced all of training anims for the 2004-2005 season edition of LMA, storyboarded the FMV for the first edition of Club Football and worked on the cutscene anims for its subsequent 2005 edition.

The tail end of 2004 saw David working as a concept artist designing 15 NPC and lead characters for a new radical Wild West games design, sadly the game was abandoned at the technical demo stage.

With the cancellation of Club Football and the restructuring of Codemasters, David once again returned to the world of freelancing - this time writing and storyboarding several animated shorts for the CHASE studio and their client - The Paris Aquarium. As well as developing and pitching several ideas to Cartoon Network.

In 2005 David was hired by the games developer Rebellion to work as a creative writer developing game proposals and Game Design Documents. He was also loaned out to Rebellion's publishing concerns - 2000AD and Abandon books to work editorially - assisting both editors with submissions and content.