Episode 363: Julia Wertz

Episode 363 of the Beginnings podcast, hosted by Andy Beckerman, titled "Episode 363: Julia Wertz" was published on May 10, 2018 and runs 73 minutes.

May 10, 2018 ·73m · Beginnings

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On today's episode I talk to Julia Wertz. Julia is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian and part time urban explorer/photographer. 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, both of which were nominated for Eisner Awards. Her newest 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. Julia currently does monthly comics and illustration for the New Yorker and her work appears semi-regularly in publications such as the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Believer, and Medium.

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