Carlsbad resident Bill Lignante, 82, spent 26 years doing courtroom sketches for ABC TV, yesterday he was profiled in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
If you watched ABC network news coverage of high-profile trials such as those of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Rodney King and Patty Hearst, you saw Lignante’s work. . . . Lignante, who graduated from the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1949, illustrated popular comics, including “The Phantom” and “Ozark Ike,” and worked on well-known television cartoons such as “Scooby-Doo” and “Johnny Quest” for Hanna-Barbera. He drew the famous portraits of celebrities that hang on the wall of The Palm restaurant in Los Angeles.
He says the O.J. Simpson trial ended the careers of many courtroom artists. We kind of miss those drawings. It’s good to know we have someone in Carlsbad who can still whip them out.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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