Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) is available anywhere from large retailers to your local library, but the options below are the best way to support authors, publishers and bookstores. More info and preview pages below!

• Your local bookshop
• Hachette/Black Dog & Leventhal
• Bookshop.org
• Directly from me in my online shop or at a convention. See my event schedule here!

You can read the official book jacket description in the photo above, but here’s my personal description. Bury me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) is, on the surface, a comedic graphic novel about having a baby. But beyond that, it’s about my decision to become a mother after years of ambivalence, and all the body-horror, chaos, fear, and joy that decision led to. It’s also about miscarriage, abortion, a life-altering family trauma, the pandemic, and California wildfires. You know, just some easy-breezy stuff. But funny! I promise! If you enjoyed Impossible People and wanted to know what happened after I left NYC, this book is the unexpected and occasionally dramatic answer. But behind all the drama, it’s really a story about love. Because although I might present as dry and sardonic, behind my resting rage face is a sincere and cheesy…MOM?? I’m a MOM??!!! What the fuck. My baby is a kid now and I still can’t believe it.

If you’d like to hear what some more trustworthy sources have to say, you can see Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review, a preview on the New Yorker, an interview on Salon, or hear me talk about it on WNYC. Preview pages and ordering links are here! (More reviews and interviews can be found here.)

I’ll be on tour in 2026, and I will also be attending a number of conventions throughout 2026-2027, so check juliawertz.com/events for details and last minute additions!

Also, if you run a bookstore, convention, podcast, etc and would like me to do a signing, a show, talk or whatever, please email me! Contact info in bio. 

Here are a few sample pages from the book:

That’s it for now, more to come! here are the order links again if ya need em:

• Your local bookshop! 
• Hachette/Black Dog & Leventhal
• Bookshop.org
• Books-A-Million
• Barnes & Noble
• Amazon (if you must, but please first consider your local bookstore or bookshop.org)

I’m posting these pages for Mental Health Awareness month. For those struggling, NAMI.org can be a helpful resource. 

While I don’t normally put trigger warnings on my work, please note these pages discuss an extreme mental health crisis, a traumatic accident, bodily harm, and talk of suicide.

These pages do not appear next to each other in the book, nor are they all the pages that cover this issue. The events depicted below occurred between 2020-2022.

These are probably the last pages I’ll post about my brother. There’s no way to adequately express how grateful I am that he chose to stay with us, and that he is doing well now. For anyone struggling with mental illness, and/or for family members and friends of those people, NAMI is a good resource, and I highly encourage attending support groups since talking, sharing, and being around others who understand are the only way to get through it.

Here’s my brothers, my mom and me at Oakland Comic Con last weekend on Mother’s Day.

Side note about books:
This is the book in which these pages appear. My old brother is also a prominent character in my previous books, most notably Impossible People. My little brother appears more prominently in The Infinite Wait and Bury Me Already, and my mother appears in them all. Sorry, Ma! 

You can buy (most of) these books anywhere books are sold, and I highly encourage getting them at local bookstores. I also sell some of them as packages with extra goodies on my website juliawertz.com/store

The paperback of Tenements, Towers & Trash is almost here! (Excerpts/preview pages here) The original came out in 2017, and while it was a lovely, giant coffee table book, we’ve repackaged it and updated a few things to provide you with a more portable version! It comes out May, 6th, 2025 and I’ll be on tour throughout the year. The NYC (release-specific) events are at Lofty Pigeon on 5/6 with Emily Flake, and Rizzoli Bookstore on 5/8 with Roz Chast. Get a book at an event and I’ll sign/doodle in it for you! Please register (for free) for either event at eventbrite. The rest of the year’s events are here.

Preorder specials are available now at The Strand, McNally Jackson, Greenlight, and Rizzoli Bookstore! First 20 preorders come with a free print of whatever store you get it from!

2026 update: The book is out now!