Julia was born in 1982 and raised in the San Francisco bay area. Her mom claims she slept in a skinner box as a kid and that’s why she’s really short, but Julia isn’t sure what a skinner box actually is. Julia never went to art school but she does have a bullshit BA that she will never use. Despite the fact that she is often angry and overreacting in her comics, in reality, her backwoods upbringing & hippie parents provided her with a healthy dose of west coast mentality that cause her to still use words like “rad” “hella” and “dude” and she doesn’t give two damp shits what you think about that. Julia currently lives in a wee basement studio in Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York. She’s really proud of herself for writing this whole thing in third person but it kinda makes her feel funny.

A Fart Party collection is available here, published by Atomic Books. Don’t buy it for yer mom. Retailers can request wholesale orders from Rachel at rachel(at)atomicbooks(dot)com.

Julia is also the editor of I Saw You… an anthology of missed connection comics being published by Three Rivers Press in Feb 2009.

interviews/random questions/fightin’ words can be sent directly to me at JuliaWertz(at)gmail(dot)com and yes, I will totally answer questions for your dumb zine that only three people read, because I still put out those zines too. I might even come to your birthday party and play the kazoo if you provide the whiskey.

I love getting real mail, so please send trinkets and treats to

PO Box 220437
Brooklyn, NY 11222

flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefartparty/

A better bio in limerick form, courtesy of Alec Longstreth:

There lives a cartoonist named Julia.
She looks twelve, but don’t let that fool ya…
She drinks like a fish,
Bakes cupcakes (delish!)
Knows more swears than sailors could school ya