Batton Lash

Batton Lash (born Vito Marangi, October 29, 1953 – January 12, 2019) was an American comics creator who came to prominence as part of the 1990s self-publishing boom. in Brooklyn, New York, 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. It was later made available as a digital download on the Comics+ and Graphicly apps.

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.

Death He died at his home on January 12, 2019, from brain cancer 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 2009: The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law – Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Graphic Novel