I'm pleased to report that the next page of The Surrealist Cowgirls is completed, and will be scanned this week for posting next Sunday.
For this week's offering, here are some sketches from the jury box of the trial on which I recently served. I will make a separate post later this week discussing the case itself, with some accompanying comics!
These were all done in ballpoint pen on yellow legal tablets.
There are still occasional illustration jobs doing courtroom sketches. There are some courts (like this one) where cameras are not allowed, and newspapers and magazines still occasionally hire courtroom artists, though the practice is dying out.
I did about 70 sketches during the trial. I may organize them into a comic of the trial at some point down the road. But now, here are the most interesting of them.
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| Prosecutor, opening remarks |
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| Judge Kyle |
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| Key witness, day six |
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| Same prosecutor |
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Prosecution Witness, Day Three
(nowhere near as mean as this sketch makes him look!) |
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| Diagram of Ponzi scheme, Day three |
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| Key witness, Day three |
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| Key witness, day three |
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| Key witness, Day five |
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| Cross-examination by defense, day six |
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| Defense witness, day seven |
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| Witness from SEC, day six |
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| Defense attorney |
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| Defense team, day one |
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| Prosecution witness, day two |
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Prosecution witness, day two
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| Defense Attorney |
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| Defense witness, June 4 |
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| Defense witness, June 4 |
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| Defense witness, June 4 |
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| Key defense witness Frank Vennes |
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| Defense witness, June 5 |
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Defense witness, June 4
(this was the sweetest guy, just did a bit of accounting work for the defendant,
got no cross-examination, for which the entire jury was grateful!) |
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| Prosecution closing remarks |
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| Defendant during closing remarks |
