Martini Baton

Martini Baton is a character created by underground cartoonist Dori Seda, debuting in Last Gasp's anthology Weirdo #8 in 1983. A product of Seda's distinctively personal and unconventional storytelling style, the character reflects the strange, autobiographical spirit of San Francisco's alternative comix scene.

Born from the fertile underground of Dori Seda's imagination, Martini Baton made their debut in the pages of Weirdo #8 in 1983 — right in the thick of the Bronze Age, published by Last Gasp, the legendary San Francisco house that gave alternative comics a home when mainstream publishers wouldn't dare. Seda was one of the most distinctive voices in underground comix, and Martini Baton is a testament to that world's embrace of the strange, the personal, and the gloriously unconventional. With their own dedicated title, Martini Baton!, and appearances alongside the likes of Robert Crumb and Miss Shirl-Thing, this character inhabits one of the most creatively charged corners of comics history. A small but spirited catalog presence, Martini Baton is a genuine artifact of underground comix culture — exactly the kind of find that makes digging through the back issue bins so rewarding.