Howard Brodie, a noted combat artist during World War II who went on to sketch some of the most famous courtroom dramas of the postwar era, including the trials of the Chicago Seven, Charles Manson and Patty Hearst, died Sept. 19 at his home near Parkfield, Calif. He was 94.

Brodie was a staff artist at the San Francisco Chronicle when he enlisted in the Army during World War II. He was sent to the South Pacific as a combat artist and covered the last days of the Guadalcanal campaign.

Later, he sketched Jack Ruby at his trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan at his trial for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.