Thursday, November 20th, 2008
the original watercolor for sale here
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November 20th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I think the only shame in Gilmore Girls comes from outside sources, what other people think about those who watch it, because anyone who actually watches it falls instantly, madly, deeply in love with it.
I too am a Gilmore Girls addict.
-J
November 20th, 2008 at 9:08 am
i think this comic was one hundred dollars.
i started saying “jose” after reading that book. that little guy was way cooler than i could ever hope to be.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I love “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”!
November 20th, 2008 at 10:25 am
The 3rd and 4th panels perfectly encapsulate the universal experience of living in NYC in the winter.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am
That sounds like most of my Saturdays!
November 20th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Never eat cook-it-yourself- pizza. It never ever cooks right.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Please don’t take this for really creepy cuz it’s just moderately creepy; but I dreamed about you last night — and you were in porn — but in the end it ended up as a philosophical discussion. To give it some context, it was one of my more whacked out dreams: I was camping and I was trying to catch a fish in a little stream and I was using a big fish as bait and I would sort of throw the fish into the stream and then reel him in to see if I caught anything and he would just look at me with his weird fish eyes and shake his head “no” and then I’d throw him back in. Then I was in some sort of compound and a co-worker goes up to a boulder and says “O good, it looks like the cheese is ready” and she starts carving big chunks of cheddar off it. (It tasted really good). And then I’m running around on the roof tops of some university, looking for the library but firetrucks kept getting in the way. So I go to get something to eat and they have a special: Buy an open face sandwich and get a picture of Julia Wertz naked. This is when I was struck with the realization that “Wertz” is german for “Everybody” and also “Nobody” (I don’t speak german and am quite sure that this isn’t true) and I think, “Ah, it’s a nom de plume” — quite clever.” So the picture’s pretty hot but I can’t see your face and I’m a little baffled why you would do this. Then I hear/see an interview with you where you’re explaining yourself and you say “Eh, I needed the cash. Besides, isn’t that what I do in my comics? Expose myself for other people’s enjoyment?”
So, there’s the money shot (as it were). When I woke up I was struck and continue to be intrigued by that idea. Do you ever feel like you’re giving away too much of yourself in your work?
November 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
The last two panels happen to me like 3 - 7 times a week every since I moved to New York.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
If there’s anything Julia likes more than long comments, it’s hearing people describe their dreams.
What I’m wondering is, did the picture look like a real person naked or cartoon naked? Because Julia’s dark secret is that she actually is a toon. The Fart Party is a photo comic strip, and Julia has actually done a few nude scenes in it. When she does a color comic she smears paint on her white skin like the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman, and her public appearences are made by a model she hires, which is why her comic personality and her “in person” personality rarely match up. Julia wants to hire a better actress, but people are already used to this one.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Is that the episode with the dueling Edgar Allen Poe’s? Faux Poe Foes? That’s one of my favorites.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
That book definitely made me feel the same way about my own pathetic life.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I love it when I can’t think of something good to say in response to a post that is really weird and creepy, and then Matt B steps in and does it for me and does it twice as good as I would have. Thanks Matt!
I hate to admit that I’m kinda curious if it was a real picture or a cartoon picture too. and no, I don’t worry that I tell too much about myself, because like i’ve said a million times before, I keep a lot of my life secret from the internet. Just because you know what I did on one saturday doesn’t cover the other 6 days of the week.
once when I was really broke though, I was like, “man, I do that thing I read about where girls sell their underwear online to perverts” cause think about it, all you have to do is stick something in the mail, no faces/bodies/contact/etc…and I actually thought it was a good idea for, like, five minutes. haha i hope my mom doesn’t read this.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
also, I tried to return this “real life” actress that I hired and they were like “what’s wrong with it?” and I was all, “it’s defective” and they’re all “did you use it to pee in the sink?” and I was like “um, maybe” and they were like, “sorry, you break it, you buy it. for life.” and that’s why I one of my ears is bigger than the other.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
We could do an underwear-selling partnership, like in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJ87NRssHQ
You seal envelopes and post fake photos, I’ll dance, and we’ll laugh all the way to the bank.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Sorry if I crossed the line with that but it’s so rare that my dreams border on the profound that I thought I’d throw it out there. And then I felt like it would be extra creepy if I didn’t preface it with all the other weird shit going on.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
This comic strip was awesome and very funny! *
*too many footnotes though,i think. Sorry.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
SO WAS IT CARTOON NUDE OR REAL NUDE, ME?! If you’re gonna be a little creepy, don’t be a creepy tease, make with the sexy details!
November 20th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Details? Well, it was a real 8×12 glossy but just her torso (which is embarrassingly creepy). It was, however, signed or maybe it was just the FartParty logo in the corner — so it had to be her.
Apparently, Julia’s into brazilians too.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Christ, that’s a big photo to be giving away with a sandwich. You should have known it was a dream right then: “Fuck, no one would give away pornography of this size and quality with a sandwich! I’m fucking dreaming!”
November 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Also, a naked torso with the Fart party logo in the corner would be a great rock album cover.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
YIKES
November 20th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Ha! Great.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:26 am
My boots are 100 percent lighter.
also. Fart Party is one of my reason detra’s.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:34 am
YIKES x 2!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:19 am
Oh my god julia! My housemate and I were just discussing selling underwear online the other day!!! We were like, “um, we’re so broke, and it’s not reeeally sex work, right?” But then we decided it was creepy. However! I was talking to this girl who buys thrift store shoes (and pretends they are her real shoes) and sells them on ebay with well-worded ads to men perving out on feet. She says she buys the shoes for like, 2 bucks and sells them for forty.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I love the drawing. since i lived in brooklyn and now in sf. You should sell them cheaper.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is an awesome book. I take it you’ve read Everything is Illuminated?
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 am
Well, sure… vast fortunes have been made on the internet starting with a gross of factory-second panties and a three-day-old whitefish.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
I think its a pretty decent existence.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Great book. Great, great, great book.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am
i totally know where you’re coming from with the gilmore girls thing.. a friend and i spent several months of our lives watching all seven seasons from beginning to end.. and when it was over we almost cried. then we got over it and thought something along the lines of “oh no, we have no lives..but which crappy series will we watch next?” we are as yet undecided, so do you have any suggestions? also, this is way more embarassing than gilmore girls, we also watched all of angel. awkward..
November 28th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
i just think it’s funny that you actually mentioned that dollar store personal pizzas might not be a good idea ;P *shivers*
November 30th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
one shower heats up the place??
December 14th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close..I read that during my trainholiday to France. Picked it up at central station amsterdam(i have a tradition of buying easy to read books for in the plane or on the train) but this was actually well written.Great surprise
January 25th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
fun fact: brussel sprouts smell like farts whether you burn them or not. horrible but true.