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Wendy MacNaughton bio ↓ · March 4th, 2011 · filed under art, comics, featured comics, Meanwhile, Wendy MacNaughton
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March 4th, 2011 at 8:44 am
I love this so much!
March 4th, 2011 at 9:01 am
brilliant. I love the faces at the end.
March 4th, 2011 at 9:06 am
love all of this, especially the color and faces at the end…and the simplicity of the lines…and..and..all of it
March 4th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Gorgeous! Ah, the cash registers! The faces…the glasses…extraordinary.
This makes me so happy…and makes me wanna go to the bar.
March 4th, 2011 at 9:21 am
you make me want to live in your drawings.
March 4th, 2011 at 10:20 am
I was a mission bartender for years and If I could go back and change all of it, well, i wouldn’t. Thanks for the sweet memories. xo
March 4th, 2011 at 10:30 am
I want to be a Mission bartender now. Brilliant.
March 4th, 2011 at 11:02 am
So good. In fact, it’s my favorite, excluding the chess players.
March 4th, 2011 at 11:46 am
Oh Wendy: You rock! So amazing, Can’t wait to see you tommorrow at the party for JR & Ali. Celebrate that ‘new’ friend of yours. You are our FOREVER favorite and talent to the max!
March 4th, 2011 at 11:56 am
Super fantastic.
March 4th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the internet.
March 4th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I love it.
I could say similar things about being a barista, but it’s quite the same as being behind the bar. Habits, nonetheless.
March 4th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
So wonderful. I am grateful you did Mission Bars and not the Nob Hill circuit – you can have my regular stool any time. Jan
March 4th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I didn’t realize this was one specific bar at first. Seems like it could be a portrait of bars in general. Nice.
March 4th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
This is magnificent!
March 4th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Awesome, I like the portraits and the cash registers. But I’m impressed that the theater was showing a Beatles movie in 1930(I realize that’s probably when it was built, not when that movie came, but it’s still funny).
March 4th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
love this
March 4th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Moving piece. Wonderful drawings. Not much of a drinker myself, but this makes me want to check out the Mission bars. Even the toilets there.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
drunk with love for this one.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
@ale It actually is about different bars.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
I love your work, and I just love how you use the “page” of the browser. You own it, and I love that. It makes such a difference to getting inside these wonderful pieces. Thank you!
March 4th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Is that @Isaac Fitzgerald in one of the portraits?
March 5th, 2011 at 12:54 am
Love, love, love
March 5th, 2011 at 3:30 am
Conviviality. Can you use that in a sentence please?
Sure. “I remember conviviality.”
Definition?
Conviviality. That which you thought was a productive and life enhancing activity before your life was truly enhanced. A quaint memory, but nothing as good as kids and grand-kids.
March 5th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Fantastic!
March 6th, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Really, really wonderful, Wendy. I think this is the best entry in the series yet.
March 6th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
This is amazing work. Love the mixture of ink and watercolor. The migratory patterns diagram made me laugh because it’s so true… I too have my favorite 3 or 4 bars in the Mission and am a slave to habit.
March 7th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Too rad.
March 8th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
I love this so so much, more even than a good night of barhopping.
May 20th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Love the diagram of the migration from bar to bar. You are extremely talented!
May 20th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Ahh… wonderful! As if I weren’t already homesick enough, sitting so far away from the neighborhood, and, of course, the bars I love so much.
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:53 am
I’ve just found your site and I’m loving it. This is wonderful! I enjoy how each painting embodies this sort of tunnel vision glimpse of the surroundings and personalities you see. You capture what is important and tell a story while doing so. Great work!