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Birth Date:29 October 1953
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Death Place:San Diego, California, U.S.
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Batton Lash (October 29, 1953 – January 12, 2019) was an American comics creator who came to prominence as part of the 1990s self-publishing boom. He is best known for the series Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (a.k.a. Supernatural Law), a comedic series about law partners specializing in cases dealing with archetypes from the horror genre, which ran as a strip in The National Law Journal, and as a stand-alone series of comic books and graphic novels. He received several awards for his work, including an Inkpot Award, an Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award, an Eisner Award, and nominations for two Harvey Awards.

Career

Batton Lash was born[1] in Brooklyn, New York, and studied cartooning and graphic arts at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.[2] [3]

In 1979, he began writing and drawing Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, as a weekly newspaper strip which appeared in The Brooklyn Paper until 1996 and The National Law Journal from 1983 to 1997.[4] In 1980 Lash was a courtroom sketch artist during the trial against John Gotti. In 1994, he and his wife Jackie Estrada founded Exhibit A Press to publish the series as a full-length comic book stories, renaming it Supernatural Law.[5] It was later made available as a digital download on the Comics+ and Graphicly apps.[6]

In 1994 he wrote Archie Meets the Punisher, a well-received crossover between the teen characters of Archie Comics and Marvel Comics' grim antihero the Punisher. He wrote eight issues of Radioactive Man for Bongo Comics, which received an Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication in 2002.

In 2009 he began working with writer James Hudnall on "Obama Nation", a conservative political comic strip on Andrew Breitbart's website BigGovernment. The series drew national attention in 2011, when MSNBC commentator Lawrence O'Donnell criticized one of the strips as racist, accusing it of caricaturing Barack and Michelle Obama using stereotypes of African Americans.[7] [8] [9] [10]

Death

He died at his home on January 12, 2019, from brain cancer at the age of 65.[11] [12]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Comics

Collections

Notes and References

  1. http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/01/12/batton-lash-rip/ Batton Lash — RIP
  2. Web site: Batton Lash. lambiek.net. en. 2019-01-13.
  3. Web site: RIP local comic book creator Batton Lash (Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre). www.sandiegoreader.com. en. 2019-01-13.
  4. Web site: Graphic Novel Review: 'The Werewolf of New York' by Batton Lash. Jeff. Provine. BlogCritis.org. November 13, 2014 . February 27, 2016. October 10, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151010214706/http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Graphic-Novel-Review-The-Werewolf-of-New-York-5891859.php . live.
  5. Web site: Supernatural Law Creator, Batton Lash, Passes Away. 2019-01-13. CBR. en-US. 2019-01-13.
  6. Batton Lash's "Supernatural Law" Now Available for Digital Download. . December 13, 2011 . February 27, 2016. January 3, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160103074438/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=35915 . live.
  7. Web site: MSNBC's O'Donnell takes on Hudnall/Lash over Michelle Obama cartoon . ComicsBeat.com . February 16, 2011. Heidi MacDonald. Heidi. MacDonald. August 19, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819074046/http://comicsbeat.com/msnbcs-odonnell-takes-on-hudnalllash-over-michelle-obama-cartoon/.
  8. Web site: Comic Riffs – 'OBAMA NATION' artist decries MSNBC rant about 'racist obscenity' cartoon. voices.washingtonpost.com. 2019-01-13.
  9. Web site: Hudnall, Lash under fire for political cartoon CBR. www.cbr.com. 16 February 2011 . 2019-01-13.
  10. Web site: Varying views of Obama. ComicsBeat.com. March 30, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20120828160912/http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/03/30/varying-views-of-obama/ . August 28, 2012.
  11. Web site: Batton Lash R.I.P.. Mark. Evanier . Mark Evanier . January 12, 2019. NewsFromMe.com.
  12. Web site: Batton Lash, Creator of Supernatural Law, Dies. Bleeding Cool. 12 January 2019 . 2019-01-13.
  13. Web site: GCD :: Creator :: Batton Lash. www.comics.org. 2019-01-13.
  14. Web site: Inkpot Award. 2012-12-06. Comic-Con International: San Diego. en. 2019-01-13.
  15. Web site: Benjamin Franklin Award Winners and Finalists 2009 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090612211729/http://www.ibpa-online.org/pubresources/benfrank2009_Winners.aspx . June 12, 2009.

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