His journalistic career began in 1911 as a staff artist for the Kansas City Star.

He then found his permanent niche at the New York Daily News, where he worked until 1969.

Batchelor's most famous editorial, published in 1936, reflected the newspaper's isolationist stance and won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

It depicted a prototypical "Any European Youth" greeted by a skull-faced harlot representing War, captioned "Come on in, I'll treat you right, I used to know your Daddy.

Batchelor is also known for having executed a bronze bust of Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the Daily News and co-founder of Liberty magazine, and a series of oil murals in The News Building.