In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over tragedy or any such nonsense. It’s simply a hilarious—occasionally poignant—book filled with interesting art, absurd humor and plenty of amusing self-deprecation. Box by box, Wertz chronicles four sketchy apartments, seven terrible jobs, family drama, traveling fiascos, and too many whiskey bottles to count.

Drinking at the Movies

Comics & Graphic Novels

Wertz, Julia

Comic Strips

Three Rivers Press

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! 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 &amp; 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 &amp; Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Graphic Novels

Black Dog Leventhal

**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year** Here is New York, as you've never seen it before! Acclaimed cartoonist Julia Wertz regales us with her triumphant, entertaining, and side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world.&nbsp; In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into&nbsp;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.

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People,&nbsp;celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery. Opening at&nbsp;the culmination of a disastrous trip to Puerto Rico, the first page of Impossible People&nbsp;finds Julia standing stupefied in the middle of the jungle beside a rental Jeep she's&nbsp;just crashed. From this moment, the story flashes back to the beginning of her five-year journey towards sobriety that includes group therapy sessions, relapses, an ill-fated relationship, terrible dates, and an unceremonious&nbsp;eviction from her New York City apartment.&nbsp;Far from the typical addiction narrative that follows an upward trajectory from rock bottom to rehab to recovery,&nbsp;Impossible People&nbsp;portrays the lesser told but more common story: That the road to recover is not always linear. With unflinching honesty, Wertz details the arduous, frustrating, and hilarious story of trying and failing and trying again.

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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.

Museum of Mistakes: The Official Fart Party Collection 2004-2010

Atomic Book Co

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories is not a sustained narrative, but rather a collection of three short stories. The stories in this collection contain Julia Wertz's signature acerbic wit, ribald humor, and keen eye for the everyday, but they also find the cartoonist delving more deeply into the personal.

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Koyama Press

Representing Julia Wertz's critically acclaimed first graphic memoir in a new format, with a brand new sketchbook from Wertz, and an introduction by Janeane Garofalo. But don't worry; we haven't replaced any of the wrenching and ribald, whiskey-soaked coming-of-age tale. This is Wertz at her best, which is sometimes her worst.
Julia Wertz lives and works in Brooklyn. She is the author of the autobiographic comic books The Fart Party Vols. 1 and 2 (Atomic Books, 2007, 2009). Both volumes were collected as Museum of Mistakes in 2014, Drinking at the Movies (Random House, 2010) and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (Koyama Press, 2012).

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.

Museum of Mistakes

Uncivilized Books

For almost two decades, Julia Wertz has been documenting her life’s most intimate, absurd, and amusing moments through a whimsical and hilarious diary comic book called The Fart Party. Wertz retells childhood antics that end in scars and swears. She tracks, in real-time, her young adulthood as she forgot her college graduation, traveled cross country via train, and drank her way through a harsh break-up. After receiving much acclaim (and controversy), The Fart Party became a series of self-published mini-comics, eventually collected into two volumes, published by Atomic Books. Long out of print, Museum of Mistakes collects anything and everything that is The Fart Party. PLUS: numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains, and more. This massive tome begs the question, “what is a Fart Party?” And the answer is... you’ll have to read to find out!

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 neoyorsófila, 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: Una historia ilustrada y poco convencional de Nueva York

Errata Naturae Editores

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Drinking at the Movies

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Museum of Mistakes: The Official Fart Party Collection 2004-2010

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

Drinking at the Movies

Museum of Mistakes

Museum of Mistakes

Barrios, bloques y basura: Una historia ilustrada y poco convencional de Nueva York