By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 8/31/2015
As we all know, paying jobs for artists can be in short supply. One of the more obscure but potentially full-time gigs is courtroom sketch artist—although cameras are increasingly allowed in courtrooms, sometimes a sketch is still the only way to bring the drama to the public. The cautionary tale of Jane Rosenberg would remain […]
By: Abbey Lovell,
on 8/4/2015
The Wells Report besmirched the reputation of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, concluding that the NFL 'golden boy' was likely aware that he was playing with under-inflated footballs in the 2015 AFL conference game against the Indianapolis Colts. If the report is to be believed, even Brady has stooped to less-than-savory methods to win a game of football. There are a range of opinions about Brady’s innocence, offered by nearly every sports commentator and former football player.
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Her first sketch was done at a hearing that lasted less than 5 minutes. That’s not much time to capture the entire scene, and nail a likeness. I guess all the mocking she’s endured comes from bloggers who do their jobs flawlessly every single time.
By the way, your fourth paragraph contains a typo — the word is “link”, not “jink”.
Hi Heidi – The Tom Brady scandal is actually about the DEflating of footballs (presumably to make them easier to grip), not overinflation. On a lighter note, being a Jets fan (as I believe you are also), the original courtroom picture of Brady, which is sort of reminiscent of a Buffy vampire, is a pretty accurate depiction of how I see him in my nightmares. :)
While attending the American Library Association conference in San Francisco last June, I met a court reporter who was hired, by ALA, to provide her services to an attendee who wasn’t able to normally partake in the panel. I asked her, in general, what would it cost? I think it was less than $100 an hour.
I asked, because I remember watching the nightly news and seeing the sketch artists’ work on tv.
Add in a court reporter, and I began to wonder… why don’t conventions/companies do this? Hire a staff artist who’s good and fast (Sergio Aragones, Rick Parker, Thom Zahler), and create a visual record of a panel. The court reporter records everything, and there’s an instant transcript.
Of course, hiring a court reporter for every panel would be expensive,
Was Rose O’Neill, of Kewpie fame, a comics journalist who did illustrations for newspapers during the early 1900s?