Batton Lash

Batton Lash
Batton Lash
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller

Batton Lash is a comic-book and comic-strip writer-artist best known for Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre and the subsequent Supernatural Law. He was nominated for two Harvey Awards i 2003, and won the 2009 Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Graphic Novel.

Career

Since 1979, he has been writing and drawing Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre which first appeared as a weekly newspaper strip in The Brooklyn Paper and The National Law Journal, later renamed Supernatural Law when it made the leap to full-length comic book stories under Batton Lash's own company, Exhibit A Press, in 1994. It also appears online.^[1]

Later he also wrote Radioactive Man for Bongo Comics. The series received an Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication in 2002.

In 2009, Lash began working with conservative writer James D. Hudnall on an online comic strip critical of President Barack Obama, "Obama Nation". The controversial cartoons, appearing on a website run by Andrew Breitbart, have been criticized by some as being nonsensical and hateful. A 2011 cartoon was called racist because it caricatured First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama in ways that stereotype African-Americans.

Awards and nominations

• 2003: Mister Negativity and Other Tales of Supernatural Law — Harvey Special Award for Humor nomination
• 2003: Supernatural Law #35 — Harvey Award nomination for Best Single Issue
• 2009: The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law — Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Graphic Novel ^[2]

Bibliography

Comics

• Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #1-23
• Mavis #1-3
• Supernatural Law #24-45
• Radioactive Man volume 2 (eight issues)
• Simpsons Super Spectacular #1-5
• Archie Meets the Punisher
• Archie Comics "The House of Riverdale"
• Archie Comics "Archie Freshman Year"

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 Volume: I, II, III, 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)

References