Julia Wertz

Presents a reflection on early adulthood in which the author moves from San Francisco to Brooklyn at the height of Obama's election frenzy and endures a series of minimum-wage jobs, local competitiveness, and problems back home.

Drinking at the Movies

Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.

An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Tenements, Towers & Trash

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

In 2004, San Francisco Bay Area native Julia Wertz began a series of funny, irreverent autobiographical comics she called "The Fart Party." After posting these comics online to acclaim and controversy, she eventually started collecting these comics as self-published minis which found their way to Atomic Books in Baltimore, who thought they ought to be collected into a proper book so as to garner Julia more laughs and hate mail. As these things go, the first volume was so successful, there was a second volume. Both are now out of print, but Museum of Mistakes collects them into one book, plus numerous pages of Julia's early comic work, unpublished and/or previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains and more.

the official Fart Party collection 2004-2010

Museum of mistakes

Bringing together drawings by both established and up-and-coming graphic artirts and cartoonists, a hilarious anthology of comics provides a whimsical look at people searching for love through a series of chance encounters, might-have-been moments, passionate longings, and offbeat attractions. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections

I Saw You

Impossible People

En Barrios, bloques y basura, Julia Wertz nos lleva a la parte trasera de esa Nueva York que crees que conoces. No es la Nueva York turística --la Estatua de la Libertad hace apenas una breve aparición y el Empire State Building no sale en absoluto--, sino sus entrañas, los lugares más secretos de esta ciudad que, a día de hoy, sigue sin dormir. A través de magníficos y divertidos dibujos y cómics, Wertz nos descubre paisajes urbanos en los que podemos encontrar «el antes y el después» de muchos de sus rincones más increíbles y las historias más disparatadas, como la leyenda de Kim's Video, el peliagudo negocio de Ray's Pizza, la basura vintage y los huesos de caballo que ensucian la costa de Bottle Beach en Brooklyn, el cementerio de máquinas de pinball en el fondo del Hudson, el astillero abandonado de Staten Island o la espeluznante biografía de Madame Restell, la insaciable abortera de la Quinta Avenida. De la mano de esta neoyorquina y neoyorksófila, tan buena contadora de historias como dibujante, y con un envidiable sentido del humor, recorreremos bares, restaurantes y puestos de comida ambulante, sabremos de libreros y de basureros, y entraremos en apartamentos minúsculos o de un lujo tan desorbitado como sus precios.Barrios, bloques y basura es algo así como un viaje a deshoras en un taxi amarillo que, en realidad, va siguiendo a otro taxi, también amarillo pero más antiguo, tras cuya estela iremos desde la ciudad actual hasta una Nueva York de antaño que sigue escondida entre sus calles.

una historia ilustrada y poco convencional

Barrios, bloques y basura

The Fart Party

The Great Pretenders and Other Stories

Mystery Theater Episode 1

Drinking at the movies. Un anno a New York

Whisky & Nueva York

Journal de bord de la première année de J. Wertz à New York, après son départ de San Francisco. Elle se souvient de ses quatre appartements, de ses sept petits boulots, des drames familiaux qui l'ont frappée, de ses voyages ratés, de bouteilles de mauvais whisky...

Whiskey & New-York

After trying and failing at a long distance relationship with her boyfriend in the originalFart Party collection, Julia quits her job and travels from coast to coast, meeting many strangers who will soon become a huge part of her world. She returns to San Francisco to wisecrack her way through a mundane minimum wage job and learns to love being single. But when her neighborhood gets increasingly violent and she comes down with a serious case of wanderlust, she begins to pack her bag for Portland. At the last minute, she changes her mind and goes to Brooklyn instead. This collection includesFart Party #4.5-#7, plus some never before seen comics. With a foreword by Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship).

In 2004, Julia Wertz began a series of funny, irreverent autobiographical comics she called The Fart Party. After posting these comics online to acclaim and controversy, she eventually started collecting these comics as self-published minis which found their way to Atomic Books in Baltimore, who thought they ought to be collected into a proper book so as to garner Julia more laughs and hate mail.As these things go, the first volume was so successful, there was a second volume. Both are now out of print, but? Museum of Mistakes? collects them into one book, plus numerous pages of Julia s early comic work, unpublished and/or previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains and more.

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