Friday, August 15, 2014

Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection


400pp, Size: 6.5 x 9.25
September 2014
$24
ISBN: 978-0-9786569-6-6

In 2004, Julia Wertz began a series of funny, irreverent autobiographical comics she called “The Fart Party.” After posting these comics online at fartparty.org to acclaim and controversy. She eventually started collecting these comics as self-published minis which found their way to Atomic Books in Baltimore who thought they ought to be collected into a proper book so as to garner Julia more laughs and hate mail.

As these things go, the first volume was so successful, there was a second volume. Both are out of print, but Museum of Mistakes collects them into one book, plus numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and/or previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains and more.

The Fart Party is friggin’ hilarious.” – New York Magazine

Julia is the funniest, most unique voice in comics right now.” – Brian K. Vaughan

If you’re wondering what it’s like to be a smart, self-aware young woman, Wertz’s comics have all the answers.” – The Onion