"Together, [these pictures and stories] do the work of great literature-gathering a force so true they ultimately tell a story that includes us all." -Cheryl Strayed, from the Introduction
From New York Times bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and bestselling author Isaac Fitzgerald--the stories behind the question, Why did you get that tattoo?
Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times-bestselling artist, illustrator, and graphic journalist with a degree in social work who combines these practices to tell the stories of people who are often overlooked. She has illustrated and/or authored eleven books, including Salt Fat Acid Heat, The Gutsy Girl, and Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in Its Own Words. Her visual storytelling series Meanwhile was the New York Times's first weekly drawn journalism column. The creator of DrawTogether and co-founder of Women Who Draw, she lives in the Bay Area.
Instagram/Twitter/YouTube @wendymac / wendymacnaughton.com
Isaac Fitzgerald appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children's book
How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of
Pen & Ink and
Knives & Ink (winner of an IACP Award). His writing has appeared in the
New York Times, the
Guardian, the
Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.