{"id":2251,"date":"2008-04-04T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2008-04-04T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T18:13:06","slug":"carlsbads-court-sketcher-profiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s Court Sketcher Profiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/300px-lignante-thephantom.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/300px-lignante-thephantom.jpg','popup','width=300,height=284,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/300px-lignante-thephantom-tm.jpg\" height=\"189\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"300Px-Lignante Thephantom\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad resident <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Lignante\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Lignante<\/a><\/strong>, 82, spent 26 years doing courtroom sketches for ABC TV, yesterday he was profiled in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080403-9999-1mc3sketch.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you watched ABC network news coverage of high-profile trials such as those of <strong>Charles Manson<\/strong>, <strong>Sirhan Sirhan<\/strong>, <strong>Rodney King<\/strong> and <strong>Patty Hearst<\/strong>, you saw Lignante&#8217;s work. . . . Lignante, who graduated from the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1949, illustrated popular comics, including &#8220;<strong>The Phantom<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Ozark Ike<\/strong>,&#8221; and worked on well-known television cartoons such as &#8220;<strong>Scooby-Doo<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Johnny Ques<\/strong>t&#8221; for <strong>Hanna-Barbera<\/strong>. He drew the famous portraits of celebrities that hang on the wall of The Palm restaurant in Los Angeles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He says the O.J. Simpson trial ended the careers of many courtroom artists. We kind of miss those drawings. It&#8217;s good to know we have someone in Carlsbad who can still whip them out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080403-9999-1mc3sketch.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s work. . . . Lignante, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}