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(collected in Museum of Mistakesand 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 TimesHarper’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 New York City before settling in Sonoma County, CA, with her partner Oliver (yup, the Oliver from Fart Party) and their son Felix. She’s currently working on the graphic novel Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) to be released in 2025.

Wertz is on tour in 2023, check this page for readings and shows

You can read some of her comics at Museum of Mistakes, and see her research and photos of abandoned places on Adventure Bible School.

Contact info: juliajwertz (at)gmail(dot)com

Agent: Michelle Brower at mbrower (at) trellisliterary (dot) com