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Yes, I have been griped at by the judge, too!
It used to be kinda tough working for the locals jockeying for seating, because they all hired their own artists. Most of them were pretty bad, and soon the locals just hired me and split the costs.
The networks are great to work for. My first was CNN. They asked me how much, so I doubled my daily rate for locals - to $300. She said that was not acceptable - I would have to charge at least $500 a day for them to look at me.
Once ESPN called me. I thought they were selling magazines and hung up on them. They called me back and said it was ESPN News Network, and they wanted me to draw for the Casey Martin trial. That was quite an amazing news deal. I wound up working for four networks simulteneously!
It is a nasty way to draw - the work looks terrible - but when it is on TV, with all the close up camera effects, it looks better.
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