Batton Lash, Comic book writer & artist, Died at 65

Batton Lash was born on October 29, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, and died on January 12, 2019.

 

He was an American comics creator.

 

He came to prominence as part of the 1990s self-publishing boom.

 

Lash was best known for the series Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (aka 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 was a student of cartooning and graphic arts at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.

 

Batton Lash gained 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. 

Batton Lash passed away at 65 years old from brain cancer.