julia wertz

Julia Wertz's 'Drinking At The Movies' Gets A Return Engagement
Julia Wertz's 'Drinking At The Movies' Gets A Return Engagement
Julia Wertz's 'Drinking At The Movies' Gets A Return Engagement
In 2010, fancy-schmancy "real book" publisher Random House released Julia Wertz's first book-length work, the graphic memoir Drinking At The Movies, which chronicled her move from San Francisco to New York City in 2007-2008. For a lot of readers, the book and its very warm reception constituted the first exposure to Wertz and her unique, self-deprecating, self-deflating, self-destructing sense of humor. As the Fart Party cartoonist's star rose, Drinking At The Movies lapsed out-of-print. But Koyoma Press, publishers of Wertz's next book, 2012's The Infinite Wait and Other Stories, has rectified that with a brand-new, 2015 edition of Drinking At The Movies.
Julia Wertz Shares Her Hilariously Profane Letters from Rehab
Julia Wertz Shares Her Hilariously Profane Letters from Rehab
Julia Wertz Shares Her Hilariously Profane Letters from Rehab
The one frustrating thing about Drinking at the Movies, Julia Wertz's memoir of her early, soused months in Brooklyn, New York, is that at the end, almost as an afterthought, Wertz mentions that she got sober. She ends her book on the cusp of a major transition, from someone who is still amused by her own whiskey-soaked antics to someone who wonders if all that drinking is wrecking her life... Rea