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Batton Lash (born Vito Marangi Https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lash_batton.htm#:~:text=Batton%20Lash%20was%20born%20in,of%20Visual%20Arts%20in%20Manhattan.< /ref>was an American comics creator who came to prominence as part of the 1990s boom. He is best known for the series Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (a.k.a. ), 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 , an Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award, an , and nominations for two .


Career
Batton Lash was born Batton Lash — RIP, by D. D. Degg, at Daily Cartoonist; published January 12, 2019; retrieved January 29, 2019 in , and studied cartooning and graphic arts at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.

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. In 1980 Lash was a artist during the trial against . In 1994, he and his wife founded Exhibit A Press to publish the series as a full-length comic book stories, renaming it Supernatural Law. It was later made available as a on the Comics+ and apps.

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

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


Death
He died at his home on January 12, 2019, from at the age of 65.


Awards and nominations
  • 1996: Don Thompson Award – Best Achievement by a Cartoonist (tie)
  • 1997: Don Thompson Award – Best Achievement by a Writer & Artist
  • 2002: Radioactive Man – Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication
  • 2003: Mister Negativity and Other Tales of Supernatural Law – nominated for for Humor
  • 2003: Supernatural Law #35 – nominated for Harvey Award for Best Single Issue
  • 2004: Inkpot Award
  • 2009: The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law – Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Graphic Novel


Bibliography

Comics
  • Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #1–23
  • Mavis #1–3 (featuring Wolff and Byrd's secretary)
  • #24–45
  • Radioactive Man volume 2 (eight issues)
  • Simpsons Super Spectacular #1–5
  • Archie Meets the Punisher, one-shot
  • "The House of Riverdale"
  • "Archie Freshman Year"
  • The Big Book of Death (contributor)
  • The Big Book of Weirdos (contributor)
  • The Big Book of Urban Legends (contributor)
  • The Big Book of Thugs (contributor)


Collections
  • Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre—"The Red Book" (comic strips from the mid-80s)
  • Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Supernatural Law (comic strips)
  • Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Case Files Volumes I-IV (#1–16)
  • Tales of Supernatural Law (#1–8)
  • The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law (#9–16)
  • Sonovawitch! and Other Tales of Supernatural Law (#17–22, Mavis #1)
  • The Vampire Brat, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law (#23–29, Mavis #2)
  • Mister Negativity, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law (#31–36, Mavis #3)

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