bio/contact
Julia Wertz was born in the San Francisco bay area in 1982. She is the author/illustrator of the unfortunately titled autobiographical graphic novels The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2, Drinking at the Movies and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories.She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and makes comics at Pizza Island (RIP). Her work appears in absolutely no other publications and she’s an irregular contributor to twitter.
Julia’s works include:
Fart Party vol 1 (Atomic Books 2007)
Fart Party vol 2 (Atomic Books 2009)
Drinking at the Movies (Random House 2010)
The Infinite Wait (Koyama Press 2012)
and the upcoming Fart Party omnibus: Museum of Mistakes (Atomic Books 2013)
And here’s a tedious list of interviews and book reviews if you like those kinds of things.
CONTACT:
questions and love/hate mail can be sent directly to me at juliajwertz(at)gmail(dot)com. I no longer have a PO Box but if you really want to send me something via snail mail, email me and there’s a 90% chance I’ll give you an address unless you seem creepy
You can contact me for everything, but if you insist on doing it the businessy way, please contact my agent Michelle Brower at michelle(at)foliolit(dot)com
For review copies of the books, please contact:
The Infinite Wait- info@koyamapress.com
Drinking at the Movies- stchan(at)randomhouse(dot)com
Fart Party vol 1 or 2- rachel(at)atomicbooks(dot)com
And then of course there’s all that internet junk:
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I just stumbled upon your book “Drinking at the Movies” at the library on Friday, and I’ve already finished it & LOVED it! I’m definitely gonna check out your other books and visit your website too! You’re truly hilarious & I believe there’s a little bit of Julia in us all.
Thanks,
Sid
(female from Chicago).
Hey,
Love your shit! Just checked your events page and found out you’ll be at TCAF this year. So, happy to hear it. Now I can get all your stuff – I’m assuming you’ll be bringing copies of all the comics you’ve published to date.
I see that Lisa Hanawalt will also be at TCAF. I’ve been trying to check out her work (on her website) ever since you talked her up, but I can’t open her webpage – just keeps loading. I gave up after about forty-five minutes.
But, so happy you’re coming!
Almost finished Drinking at the Movies, which I picked up at the library. It’s awesome. I’m now recommending to friends with more cash that they buy one from you directly (you get cash, I get a squint at the mini comic).
Thanks!
r
I bought your book. I did not check it out at the library. I will buy your other books too. Not gonna check them out at the library either.
your work has helped me out in troublesome times, i just want to express my gratitude for this.
Dear Julia Wertz,
My mother bought me your comic “Drinking At The Movies” upon my hospitalization. You are not funny. The only reason I got 62 pages into your shit-romp was because I was on morphine and percocet for most of the day. Even then, my anger only dissipated into a dull streak of being unmotivated to express my dissatisfaction for your abomination of a book. I thought your book was so terrible that I would personally slap Fiona Apple in the face for even endorsing it. Your humor just makes you look like a whiny alcoholic whose biggest problem is forgetting her damn keys. Your “edgy” use of turd-humor makes me hope that someone with the smears poop on all your belongings and subsequently burns down all your hopes and dreams. All things considered, the publishing executive must have been giving some jimmies’ under the table, because I am beside myself in the notion someone would want to drop their trousers and knowingly wiz on society; like they did by publishing your book. I mean, the fact that someone actually put effort into, wasted resources on and promoted your work gives me a headache. I would rather pass kidney stones instead of read your comics.
Expect a letter of hate as well.
A simple man who actually appreciates comedy,
Charlie.
fuck you charlie you stone pisser hahaha, your a fuckin fag! danm you dont have anything better to do but piss stones, and write a letter you stupid shit. i love your books! i hope you put out more books soon cuz when you do im gona fart.
Me again. Heidi Durrow, Michelle B., and I will be at Word Brooklyn on Oct. 13th. Gotta come hang with us… We’re doing a panel on “How to Publish your First Novel.” Heidi Durrow is so much fun, and you already know that Michelle Brower is a savvy cupcake. XO michele
I Love DATM and FP VOL. 1 and 2. and ANTONYMS (jk) I also freeloaded your comics from the Library.( SOCIALISM—YEA!)
But Anyways I really enjoyed reading them. They inspired me to cartoon some of my own life. So I suppose that I owe you something now. I’ll Try to re-pay. Karma—you know.
PEEESHHHH
ELijah (fRom Denver)
Loved your “Drinking At The Movies” – got it from our library on a recommendation – laughed out loud so much when telling my parents about your misadventures that they’re reading it now, and laughing out loud. They’re both over 75 so your humour translates well, at least to people with a sense of humour. I’m nearly 55 and if I can get myself to Angouleme I hope to say ‘hi’ and thank you for being creative. Wish more people just accepted themselves – we’re all the same, and that means we’re all weird, and so all the same and the idea goes on and on…
an old bloke from Australia that loves comics and all eye-candy
(I spent 2 weeks in the Louvre and never got bored)
am I starting to big-note myself?
who cares!
I bought your book. Whats a library?
I read “Drinking at the Movies” just the other day and usually I’m not into that kind of humour but i thought it was amazingly halarious.
Keep it up C:
hay. Iam kagum sekali.
My friend introduced me to your book, “Drinking at the Movies.” I laughed like a hyena in heat for two hours. I can’t wait to read more. Muchimas gracias!
id likem to see soem cominca
bought a copy of ‘fart party’ at a second hand book store in the exchange district for 4 bits of shrapnel…had to barter down the price from 8 but it was well worth it…
i wouldn’t claim to know fuck all about comics or what a good one is….mostly because i’m not a dick….in regards to comics. but i love yours, it was the first on from atomic and i had no idea what i was buying but it’s been a solid purchase i’ve regarded highly…even if it’s in my shit house…
just drifted here to see if you ever made any noise after that little chap book but am glad to find that you have. it reminds me of shit i used to do when i worked a fuck stink reception job….but….more interesting. i almost was going to type “keep up the good work”, but said fuck it….i’ve enjoyed what i’ve seen and it’s been a nice little reference piece for my life….so stop writing, keep writing, suck, succeed, who cares….you’re first published work was cooler than a toilet seat in december…and i found it here in canada and have lent it to numerous assholes who have all greeted it with warm reception and minimal mouth farts. the only thing i got hung up on was the oliver character, it wasn’t until late in the book that i found out he was austrian, then i had to re=read the whole thing giving him an accent…made for a weird commitment. later.
Good stuff- I like today cos I discovered ur existence. Xo
Hi Julia – I’ve been a fan for ~5 yrs – discovered fartparty while living in rural midwest doing grad school. Randomly happens that I’ve just moved to SF and am trying to convert a bunch of the locals but can’t find my favorite comic about why you really left SF (living between tenderloin & SF, dude getting shot outside your apt. while you ate cereal, etc.) I remember reading them on your site last year – so I know they’re not in your books which I had to give away when downsizing to move here (my way of letting you know that I buy your stuff too).
hey Kristen, I’m pretty sure the comic you’re referring to is in Fart Party vol 2. I pulled a lot of old comics offline a year or so ago. Just go on down to Needles & Pens on 16th and Guerrero or to Comix Experience on Divisadero and Page and ask if they have the book. If not, I’m sure either of those places would order it for you!
PS – I just noticed that you got a tumblr blog. One of my best friends works there and told me to whore him out to you if you need any help with anything on the site or upping it in hits (though it’s already pretty high).
Hi Julia, the other day I had one of these episodes when I need to buy a comic book no matter what, forgetting that I live in an illiterate neighbourhood. After what felt like hours, Hamdulillah I found DATM in the only bookshop in town, however it’s called Whiskey and New York ’cause this is France and shit and they always change titles for no reason. I didn’t really know your work before even though I knew the Pizza Island blog existed, anyway I peed myself reading it and the translation wasn’t so bad if you wanna know a nerd’s opinion. But, yeah, sorry there’s a big fat but, I think this book’s cursed or something because since I read it (and I’ve been reading your blog too so I’m waist deep in that shit now) everything has been rather fucked up around here, not talking about what’s happening in Greece or Syria, only the ordinary crappiness of life. Or maybe rea
well, that happens to me a lot… so Paris stinks and it’s expensive and full of hipsters and hobos and trash so I guess it’s pretty much like NYC and that’s probably how I got contaminated. However, being a good Christian atheist, you’re welcome for a wine & cheese orgy anytime.
Your self-appointed French readership committee
I first saw DATM as Whiskey & New York here in Paris but thought hell no, I’m reading this in English and ordered it from the US. It took forever to get here but it was worth the wait. I finished it in a day or so, which was depressing because it was over so quickly. It’s like when you’re high and happy then you’re suddenly not anymore and everything feels shitty. I feel like I need to buy all your other stuff. I’m a big New York fan and it was good to have a perspective that didn’t depict being fabulous in a fancy apartment in Manhattan and landing tons of good jobs right away. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it’s important to see the other side of it all. It has always been in my plans to go to New York after I graduate and DATM’s a good reality check because of all you went through and how you made it in your own way. You’re pretty badass Wertz! Also, thanks for bringing up a certain limited love for people (including friends) and hanging out in old clothes, which of course I’m doing as I type this nonsense. Fangirl out.
I wish they would reprint Fart Party 2. Umm… popular demand… or is it just me.
Picked your book up randomly off a shelf at the store. It’s easily relatable and lovable. I can’t tell if human beings all think about the same things or if we’re just from the same pod. You’re a genuine person who speaks her mind and that’s something anyone could look up to. Keep the childlike junk.. it really is good for you. Keeps you sane and happy.
Hi Julia..I got a genuine smile while I read the Rehab thing on the TheFix.com, it felt good..
Thanks..Keep comming around!
julia,
I have a zine I’d like to mail to you. Since pizza island is gone do you have a po box to send you something?
Joel
Hello!
I read your comic the other weekend and it made my day. Some guy started talking to me so I got distracted and couldn’t finish but I really enjoyed it. It’s always cool to read about what people around my age are going/went through. The way you present the stories is truly the best part. I look forward to saving up some money and actually buying a set!
Hey, you’re a cheat. Your self-portrait character give sorrow, but your photographs reveal a beautiful woman. I just read “Whisky & Nueva York” (spanish version of “Drinking at the movies”) and I liked it. I searched your photos and you are a very beautiful and attractive woman. I love you! The brains watch different things. Fuck the brain! (And we almost won in basketball today ;-p)
Youre awesome! Been a fan since I was in high school…4 years later, I am still a die-hard fart party (now museum of mistakes) fan.
P.S. comic con?!
Hi Julia,
I was just listening to you on the “Baby Geniuses” pod cast. When you were talking about exploring closed asylums ans it jogged this memory loose. I thought it was fascinating, I you do too. The first link, the guy also maintains a blog with more of the same. You’ve probably seen these already, but just in case….
thank you for all your work, John B
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/abandoned-suitcases-reveal-private-lives-of-insane-asylum-patients/
http://www.davidmaisel.com/works/lod.asp
Fantastic !
Dudette, you are the wildest. You are so awesome. for totes cool. Go do things.
Throw away that hooch.
Hi Julia,
I’ve just borrowed and read your “Drinking at the movies” at a small belgian city’s public library… I bet you wouldn’t have thought you would be on your way to becoming an worldly-known cartoonist…
It hit me because I realised I was in NY around the time depicted in your adventures (about one year earlier actually), except I was living in Bushwick (a little less hip than Williamsburg… but you never know, I guess it’s trendy now).
So it was very sweet for me to read about places I’ve seen and roamed at (or at least similar ones) and get the feel of NY once again. I laughed a lot too.
Anyway I don’t know where you’re at with your alcohol-addiction but you’ve got all my sincerest support and compassion cause I myself recently overcame a drug-addiction and all I can say is that no matter how empty and dull existence might seem without the substance it’s a true relief to accept oneself as the old, silly & often beautiful self you are and always were (I know it might sound cliché but to me it sounds pretty new). But anyway I can see that’s what you are already doing with your work… so keep it up !
Wish you the best,
François
i liked your drinking book and your really hot i hope i bump into you somehwere sometime
im also young and rich!!!
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