About the artist, Richard Rockwell:

Rockwell, the son of a toy designer, began his career after World War II, during which he'd served as an U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who flew Allied troops to France on D-Day and to the Ardennes Forest for the Battle of the Bulge. His first known comic-book credit is for penciling and inking the seven-page story "The Masquerading Bandits" in the Prize Comics crime series Headline Comics #36 (Aug. 1949).

He went on to draw for Lev Gleason Publications' Crime Does Not Pay and Black Diamond Western. Samples of this work, which he supplied with his membership application to the National Cartoonists Society in 1952, caught the attention of Milt Caniff, the organization's president at the time. Soon afterward, Caniff hired Rockwell to assist on Caniff's classic syndicated newspaper strip Steve Canyon, penciling and inking secondary characters and backgrounds; Caniff wrote, drew the main characters, and did finishing touches. Rockwell continued on Canyon until Caniff's death in 1988.

Rockwell's other comic-book work includes at least one story each in 1951 for Man Comics, Girl Comics, Crime Exposed and Susepense, from Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursor of Marvel Comics; and, in 1983 and 1988, a smattering of work for DC Comics, including on the Steve Canyon-like military adventure title Blackhawk.

Courtroom artist: Rockwell's largest body of work was as a courtroom artist doing trial sketches, starting with the 1957 U.S. Supreme Court case involving school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. His courtroom work remained a minor sideline until 1983. Rockwell covered the robbery and murder trial of members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army who had robbed a Brinks armored truck in Nyack, New York. Other Courtroom work Rockwell worked on included Amy Fisher, George Steinbrenner, Bernart Goetz, Bess Meyerson, World Trade Center Bombings, and many many more.

These courtroom drawings are all one of a kind items. Many of them appeared on TV, in the NY Post, NYTimes, and many more tv stations and newspring. They generally measure about 19 inches x 24 inches and drawn on sturdy heavyweight paper. The images are large, bright and very detailed. The biggest collector of these sketches are attorney who frame them for their offices, or frame them for their homes. Since they are all one-of-a-kind, they are a very inique and different gift for any attorney, artist, or person involved in any legal or art area.

Like his legendary uncle Norman Rockwell, Richard Rockwell also did magazine illustrations. As well, he drew editorial cartoons, taught at New York University, the Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, all in Manhattan, New York .