Wendy Macnaughton is an artist and illustrator based in San Francisco. She has illustrated books such Lost Cat and The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Wine. Her artwork has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Print magazine, Lucky Peach, Pop-Up Magazine, AFAR, IDEO, Time Magazine, Bon Appetit, NPR and many more. She is a staff illustrator for Longshot Magazine and her monthly illustrated documentary project 'Meanwhile,' is published in The Rumpus.
Every once in a while, there comes a beautiful work of art that
gives rightful tribute to the place we call home. Meanwhile can be
the perfect introductory course for people who are new to (or
visiting) San Francisco; but it also serves as the perfect love
letter to San Francisco and acts as a reminder for all of us who
live here to truly embrace, appreciate, and stare longingly at our
home in the hopes to witness its true beauty. -SF Weekly
If you love San Francisco, you'll love this book. -The Bold
Italic
If Studs Terkel came back in the next life with a paintbrush
instead of a microphone, Meanwhile in San Francisco is the book he
might have done. Wendy MacNaughton has captured the beating heart
of San Francisco in her off-beat, beautiful, and original drawings
of the working life of the town. Funny, poignant, nutty, and wise.
-Davia Nelson, NPR's Kitchen Sisters
If Studs Terkel, the great oral historian, had taken up drawing,
his work might have looked something like what Wendy MacNaughton
has created in her irresistibly bighearted new book, Meanwhile in
San Francisco: The City in Its Own Words. Like Terkel, MacNaughton
gives voice to ordinary people from all walks of life, dignifying
them in the process. Her pleasing, unfussy ink-and-watercolor
portraits of San Franciscans - 'illustrated documentaries, ' as she
calls them - capture library patrons, farmers' market vendors,
Giants fans, Mission hipsters and old friends hanging out in
Chinatown. - San Francisco Chronicle
Like a modern-day Margaret Mead armed with ink and watercolor, not
a critic or commentator but an observer and amplifier of voice,
MacNaughton plunges into the living fabric of the city with equal
parts curiosity and compassion, gentleness and generosity, wit and
wisdom, and emerges with a dimensional portrait painted with
honesty, humor, and humility. -Brain Pickings
Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City In Its Own Words, is an
insightful, illustrated compendium of contemporary city life. -
Alissa Walker, Gizmodo.com
Meanwhile, in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words is like
having an insider guide you around San Francisco. Wendy MacNaughton
spent months getting to know neighborhoods in San Francisco, and
the book tells the story of neighborhoods in the city from the
people who know it best. -Design*Sponge
We've been enamored of artist-graphic journalist Wendy
MacNaughton's breezy-yet-hyper-perceptive sketches, humanizing
portraits, and urban tableaus for years now, but it was with this
year's Meanwhile In San Francisco that the SF resident became
something like our illustrator laureate. The book, the result of
McNaughton's lunchtime strolls with her notebook in hand, captures
the city through its characters, from bus drivers to Mission
hipsters to the folks who pass their days at the public library. -
San Francisco Bay Guardian
You don't have to live in the Bay Area to appreciate these
beautiful sketches of daily life in the city. In addition to her
portraits of the locals, MacNaughton playfully illustrates the
insides of a burrito and an adorable assortment of dogs. -Pop Candy
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