Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist/writer, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. Her graphic novels include: The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2 (collected in Museum of Mistakes); Drinking at the Movies; The Infinite Wait & Other Stories; Tenements, Towers, & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (recipient of the Brendan Gill Prize), Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story, and Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here). She does monthly non-fiction comics for the New Yorker. Her work has appeared 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 residency 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 has begrudgingly scaled back her urban exploring adventures due to “safety concerns” (aka she became a mom) but she’s still out there.

Read some comics at Museum of Mistakes, and see research and photos of abandoned places on Adventure Bible School.

Readings, conventions, and other tour date info can is here.

Email: juliajwertz (at) gmail (dot) com

Snail mail: PO Box 137, Glen Ellen, CA 95442

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