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Julia Wertz

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Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. She made the comic books The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2 (collected in Museum of Mistakes) and the graphic novels Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait, Tenements, Towers, & Trash, (for which she won the 2018 Brendan Gill Prize), and Impossible People. She does regular short story comics for the New Yorker. Her work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Believer, the Best American Comics, and other publications. Her photography of abandoned places has appeared in a handful of newspapers. She is a repeated MacDowell fellow but was rejected from Yaddo. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent a decade in Ne ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 14,025 ratings · 1,765 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	Drinking at the Movies 3.87 avg rating — 4,436 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story 4.30 avg rating — 2,033 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Wait and Other Stories 4.19 avg rating — 1,777 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City 4.33 avg rating — 1,475 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), MariNaomi (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Gabrielle Bell (Contributor) 3.51 avg rating — 1,305 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fart Party, Vol. 1 4.09 avg rating — 741 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Museum of Mistakes: The Official Fart Party Collection 2004-2010 4.05 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fart Party, Vol. 2 4.13 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection 4.10 avg rating — 86 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Pretenders and Other Stories 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Oh please, I don't have 'best' friends, I have but a few people whose presence I can tolerate just slightly more than others who I allow to occupy space within my vicinity for short periods of time.”
― Julia Wertz, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

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“Like they say, no point in rubbin' a turd.”
― Julia Wertz, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

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message 1: by Maggie

Feb 07, 2008 11:54AM

Julia
Thank you for the add. I just got on fartparty.org and your comics are the FUNNIEST thing I've read in a long time! I'm buying your book.
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Maggie

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