14 Facts About Wendy MacNaughton

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco.

Wendy MacNaughton's work combines illustration, journalism, and social work to tell the stories of overlooked people and places.

Wendy MacNaughton's art has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, Juxtapoz, GOOD, Time Out NY, 7x7, and Gizmodo.

Wendy MacNaughton has created magazine cover images for 7x7 and Edible SF.

Wendy MacNaughton's illustrated documentary series, "Meanwhile," was first published in The Rumpus in 2010, then in 2014 as a book, Meanwhile in San Francisco, the City in Its Own Words.

Wendy MacNaughton has worked on other campaigns in Africa and produced a film in The Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since 2010, Wendy MacNaughton has been working as an illustrator full time.

In December 2019 Wendy MacNaughton was tapped to supply illustration to supplement The New York Times coverage of the Guantanamo Military Commissions.

Wendy MacNaughton had to undergo a security check, and had to agree to a strict set of rules and other restrictions.

Wendy MacNaughton wrote that Carol Rosenberg, the reporter she was working with, had warned her she could not really understand how covering Guantanamo would affect her, until she experienced it herself.

Wendy MacNaughton wrote that there was a list of items that she could not include in her drawings, without making it was obvious something had been left out.

Wendy MacNaughton described only understanding the days proceedings later, when reporters explained it to her.

Wendy MacNaughton described covering the court as so stressful that she took up smoking again, even though she had quit ten years previously.

Rosenberg wrote that, when he knew Wendy MacNaughton was not present, drawing the court, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed went back to adding a combat jacket over his traditional Islamic robes.