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BY COLIN MIXSON
A legendary Brooklyn-born comic artist
— who got his start doodling strips
for our beloved sister publication, the
Brooklyn Paper — died on Jan. 12 at 65-
years-old, following a two-year battle
with brain cancer.
Batton Lash, born on Oct. 29, 1953
and raised in Marine Park, joined the
Paper’s staff as a young delivery man,
dropping issues off at Court Street law
offi ces shortly after it debuted in 1978.
The characters and architecture
Lash encountered on that delivery
route served as the inspiration for his
spooky, courtroom comic “Wolff and
Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre,”
which he would draw for much of his
decades-long career, according to his
one-time boss.
“He went into each building and
delivered papers to law offi ces, and
that’s how he got the idea of a doing a
strip about lawyers … for dead people
and super-natural characters,” said
Brooklyn Paper Publisher Emeritus
Ed Weintrob.
Lash’s stars of “Wolff and Byrd” —
attorneys Alanna Wolff and Jeffrey
Sutton Byrd, whose zany legal adventures
included defending vampire dentists,
astral-projecting philanderers,
and vandal giants — made their fi rst
appearance in the Paper’s pages the
year after he joined the team, in September
1979.
Years later, the strip found a more
prominent home at the National Law
Journal in 1983, but Lash continued
drawing comics for the weekly broadsheet,
balancing out its news coverage
with his sharp, comedic illustrations
through the mid ’90s.
Weintrob remembered Lash as an
unusually dapper fellow, whose skills
with a sketch pad were rivaled only by
his ability to light up a room.
“From the day he came to work at
Brooklyn Paper, through all the years
I knew Lash, that was the thing about
him, he made everybody happy,” Weintrob
said.
Lash, who studied cartooning at
New York City’s School of Visual Arts,
moved to San Diego in 1993 to marry
Jackie Estrada, a veteran organizer
of that city’s Comic-Con convention —
and the only woman the artist dated
“who actually read comics,” she said.
“I had some original artwork from
Spider Man co-creator Steve Ditko, so
that blew his mind,” said Estrada.
Together, the couple founded Exhibit
A Press in 1994, through which
they self-published “Wolff and Byrd”
— or “Supernatural Law,” as it was
later called — in both strip and comicbook
form ever since.
Lash, who also drew and wrote extensively
for “The Simpsons” and Archie
Comics, is also well-remembered
amongst fans for penning the nearmythical
crossover “Archie meets the
Punisher.”
The artist is survived by his wife,
brother William Marangi, and sisters
Irene Marangi, Nancy Rorke, and
Mary Andresakis.
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