He is best known for a celebrity comic based on the puppet duo Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy.
[1] Batsford worked for the Winnipeg Free Press as an editorial cartoonist.
In 1921, he created the strip Billy's Uncle, which was syndicated by George Matthew Adams Service until 1926.
After that he joined King Features Syndicate, where he drew Doings of the Duffs for a while.
In 1939, he drew Mortimer and Charlie, based on Edgar Bergen's popular radio show, and in the early 1940s, he illustrated the comic book Helpful Herbert.