Batton Lash is a comic book creator

Comic book creator

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. His art is inspired by Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko

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 and Charlton Comics

Charlton Comics

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 horror stories.

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

Supernatural Law

Supernatural Law, previously known as Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, is a comic strip, comic book and web comic series written and illustrated by Batton Lash...

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.

Later he also wrote Radioactive Man

Radioactive Man

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for Bongo Comics

Bongo Comics

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 which received an Eisner Award

Eisner Award

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 for Best Humor Publication in 2002.

Batton was nominated for the 2003 Harvey Special Award for Humor for the collection Mister Negativity and Other Tales of Supernatural Law, and Supernatural Law #35 was nominated for Best Single Issue.

In 2009, another collection of Wolff and Byrd stories, The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law, won the Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award. The story contains guest art by Steve Bissette, Bernie Wrightson

Bernie Wrightson

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, Jeff Smith

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, Shawn McManus

Shawn McManus

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, Phil Hester

Phil Hester (comics)

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, and Charles Vess

Charles Vess

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Also in 2009 Lash began working together with conservative writer James D. Hudnall

James D. Hudnall

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 on an online comic strip called "Obama Nation" that appears on www.biggovernment.com.

Lash, who attended New York

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's School of Visual Arts

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, is married to comics industry figure Jackie Estrada

Jackie Estrada

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. They both attended the 2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

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