About/Contact

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 2 (collected in Museum of Mistakes) and the graphic novels Drinking at the Movies, and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories. Her latest book, Tenements, Towers, & Trash: An Unconventional, Illustrated History of New York City, was published by Black Dog & Leventhal/Hachette in Oct 2017, for which she won the 2018 Brendan Gill Prize. She does regular short story comics for the New Yorker. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Believer, the Best American Comics, and Medium. Her photography of abandoned places has appeared in The New York Post, the Daily Mail, and some local rags. She is a repeated MacDowell fellow. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent a decade in New York City before settling in Sonoma, Ca, with her partner Oliver (yeah, the Oliver from Fart Party) and their son Felix. She’s currently working on the graphic novel Impossible People to be released by Hachette in May 2023.

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

To support her work and see new comics, go here. To buy books, original artwork, merch, and more, visit the website store. Follow Julia on instagram. 

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

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