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"In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic ""The Fart Party"") documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don't worry--this isn't the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over tragedy or any such nonsense. It's simply a hilarious--occasionally poignant--book filled with interesting art, absurd humor and plenty of amusing self-deprecation. Box by box, Wertz chronicles four sketchy apartments, seven terrible jobs, family drama, traveling fiascos, and too many whiskey bottles to count."

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Praise for Drinking at the Movies <br> <br> This comic masterpiece should not be gifted to your grandma, unless of course your grandma is, to borrow the phrase, the shiznit. Instead, it should be read by you. Wertz's hilarious, cutting, filthy wit will either make you want to date, be, or shower her. --Sara Barron, author of People Are Unappealing <br> [P]ut it on your radar -- USA Today <br> Charming...bold yet subtle...Subtly subverts the expectations of the memoir even as [Wertz's] drawing style -- blocky, simple, with a deceptive lack of polish -- speaks to the rough-hewn intimacy of the form...She is laceratingly self-revealing, exposing her failings with a glee that borders on the perverse...What Wertz is tracing is the difficulty of knowing how to live...Title to the contrary, this is not really a book about alcohol. Rather, it's about her development, her transition into adulthood ( Well, sort of ), which Wertz reveals with acuity and grace...A quiet triumph, a,

Praise for Drinking at the Movies <br> &#160; <br>&ldquo;This comic masterpiece should not be gifted to your grandma, unless of course your grandma is, to borrow the phrase, the shiznit. Instead, it should be read by you. Wertz&rsquo;s hilarious, cutting, filthy wit will either make you want to date, be, or shower her.&rdquo; &mdash;Sara Barron, author of People Are Unappealing <br>&#160;<br> [P]ut it on your radar &mdash; USA Today<br>&#160;<br>&#160;<br>Praise for Julia Wertz and The Fart Party : <br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;I wish the little 2-D Julia was my &lsquo;Indian in the Cupboard&rsquo;&hellip;I&rsquo;d make an easy chair out of a ring box, fasten it to the front of my bike, give her a pen cap full of whiskey, and off we&rsquo;d go!&rdquo;<br>&mdash;Fiona Apple <br>&ldquo;Simple, candid, and very funny.&rdquo;<br>&mdash; San Francisco Examiner <br>&#160;<br>&#160;&ldquo;Like the best work of the slacker era, The Fart Party communicates the joyous underbelly of an underwhelming

Praise for Drinking at the Movies <br> <br> This comic masterpiece should not be gifted to your grandma, unless of course your grandma is, to borrow the phrase, the shiznit. Instead, it should be read by you. Wertz's hilarious, cutting, filthy wit will either make you want to date, be, or shower her. --Sara Barron, author of People Are Unappealing <br> [P]ut it on your radar -- USA Today <br> Charming...bold yet subtle...Subtly subverts the expectations of the memoir even as [Wertz's] drawing style -- blocky, simple, with a deceptive lack of polish -- speaks to the rough-hewn intimacy of the form...She is laceratingly self-revealing, exposing her failings with a glee that borders on the perverse...What Wertz is tracing is the difficulty of knowing how to live...Title to the contrary, this is not really a book about alcohol. Rather, it's about her development, her transition into adulthood ( Well, sort of ), which Wertz reveals with acuity and grace...A quiet triumph, at

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"Julia Wertz was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1982 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author/illustrator of the Fart Party Volumes 1 and 2, which have nothing to do with farts or parties. She also edited ""I Saw You,"" an anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads.""""For more information, visit www.fartparty.org."

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