Born in 1960, Susan Daigle-Leach — who also works under the names Susan F. Daigle and Sue Daigle — is an American colorist, letterer, illustrator, and production artist whose career has been defined above all by her extraordinary contributions to Disney comics publishing. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and entered the comics industry four years later when she joined Another Rainbow and Gladstone Publishing.
Barks Library Special - Donald Duck #2 (1994)
At Gladstone, and later at Gemstone Publishing (2003–2008), Daigle-Leach became one of the central figures in bringing classic Disney material to North American readers in color. Her most formidable single undertaking was coloring all 17,000 pages of Carl Barks's Disney output for the 141-volume Carl Barks Library in Color (1991–1996), a landmark project quite distinct from Another Rainbow's earlier black-and-white Barks library. She also colored North American editions of most of Don Rosa's Disney work. Throughout this period her primary collaborators included her husband, Gary A. Leach, and fellow colorist Scott Rockwell.
Barks Library #11 (1994)
Her sustained excellence earned genuine industry recognition: a Will Eisner Award nomination for Best Colorist in 1995 and Harvey Award nominations in the same category in both 2007 and 2008. Across a career spanning more than three decades, she has received credits on roughly 280 issues, with her name appearing most frequently in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge.
