User:Geo Swan/Janet Hamlin

Janet Hamlin is an American artist who provided the courtroom sketches in all the Guantanamo military commissions. She has also prepared book covers and movie posters. She is a technical illustrator, credited with illustrating dozens of books.

She studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

The first time she drew alleged 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, she had to alter the drawings she made of him because he complained she made his nose too big. The images she drew of him in 2008 were the first to be made public since his capture and secret detention in 2003.

In March 2013 publisher Fantagraphics announced they would be publishing a book containing 160 images Hamlin had prepared at the Guantanamo Commissions, together with Hamlin's own experiences there.