![An illustration of a sketch artist working during a trial.](https://thisiscriminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LiveShowGraphics_West-05-1024x1010.png)
Pen & Paper
Episode #35
2016-01-22 01:29:44
As a young woman in the ’60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone from disgraced governors to John Wayne Gacy, and says she only made someone look bad on purpose once.
![Courtroom sketch of John Wayne Gacy by Andy Austin](http://thisiscriminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-21-at-10.33.41-PM-1024x797.png)
Courtroom sketch of John Wayne Gacy by Andy Austin
![Courtroom sketch of John Wanye Gacy's mother](http://thisiscriminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Gacys-Mom-alone-236-1024x987.jpg)
Andy Austin’s sketch of John Wayne Gacy’s mother
![Courtroom sketch of the insanity defense placard](http://thisiscriminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-21-at-10.34.11-PM-1024x741.png)
Andy Austin’s courtroom sketch of the insanity defense placard
![Andy's sketch of Phoebe](http://thisiscriminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Andy-Draw-Phoebe-2-950x1024.jpg)
Andy’s sketch of Phoebe
See more of Andy Austin’s work in her book, Rule 53: Capturing Hippies, Spies, Politicians, and Murderers in an American Courtroom.