Julia Wertz was born in the San Francisco bay area in 1982 and currently lives in New York City. She is the author/illustrator of the autobiographic comic books The Fart Party vol 1 and vol 2 (Atomic Books, 2007/2009) Drinking at the Movies (Random House, 2010) and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (Koyama Press, 2012) Museum of Mistakes (Atomic Books, 2014) and Tenements, Towers & Trash (Hachette, Oct 2017) She does monthly history and autobio comics for the New Yorker, and monthly cityscape illustrations for Harper's Magazine. See her comics at juliawertz.com and her photography of abandoned places at adventurebibleschool.com.