A page from Impossible People about when I used to volunteer at a charity kitchen in Greenpoint (circa 2011-2012)

11th hour posting about comic con- but if you’re still here -but get signed copies of Tenements and Impossible People at Hachette Books table 1118!!

It’s creek season! I need some advice. (But first a comic from 2018 that my brother still razzes me about but I think is completely acceptable) I’m looking for water shoes w/ tread, durability & can be worn for light hiking and rock and tree scramblin’

Happy we have been an early witness to such greatness. Also happy my ancient car got us there in one piece.

I, hopeful fool

When pressed for more information, he simply stated, “you know, John Cena!” Okay, sure. (More new comics this week on Patreon)

Napa library tomorrow! Panel from 10-11 and tabling 11-1!

One of my favorite then/now from Tenements, Towers & Trash because not much has really changed? The 1910 one has broadway show posters, coke ads, clothing shops and food in the storefronts. 2015 is basically the same (conceptually) except no food shops, and everything is uglier

some midtown nyc pics from last week

Photo thread: Some pics I took around Chinatown last week. I mostly take photos of buildings/storefronts/signs to compare them old pics and I used to get annoyed when people were in the way, but now I like it. But I’m not gonna start drawing people into my illustrations bc I hate drawing people

Tonight at Lofty Pigeon in Brooklyn! (Tuesday, May 6th) with Emily Flake! And Thursday at Rizzoli with Roz Chast!

a few more days to get a free print if you preorder the new paperback of Tenements, Towers & Trash from one of these bookstores! @strandbookstore.bsky.social @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social @mcnallyeditions.com or @rizzolibooks.bsky.social

Behold

Prepping to go to NYC for book events by looking through my old pics from when I lived there. (Please note that the pics with kids in them are almost two decades old, so I not violating anyone’s privacy unless they grew up to be an adult with an unchanged baby face.) come see me next week!!!

Limited run preorder specials at these four bookstores! Order the new paperback of Tenements, Towers & Trash and get a free print of one of the storefronts (from whichever store you order from) direct links at www.juliawertz.com/trashpaperba...

One of those “moments before disaster stuck” videos

I know it’s not just me

some of the places you can find me this year!

Lots of events coming up!! Here are two for this month at the Schulz Museum and South SF Library, but a lot in May and beyond so come say hi!

Huh, I guess I have ended every walk I’ve ever taken at 44 minutes

At least I’m not alone in my battle with the Google speaker. More comics from this series at www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Thanks @electricliterature.com ! The “indignities of life” are my bread and butter.

1 of 3 comics on @newyorker.com about my contentious relationship with the Google home speaker. Don’t @ me about how it’s invading my privacy if you’re reading this on anything other than a private browser at a public library, because *glass houses* the rest at www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

If the alien from Nope ever comes at me, I’m gonna put this little banana slug stuffy on top of a bouncy house and guess fuckin’ what I win

315 Bowery in the 40s, 70s, 80s and 2000s. Its earliest incarnation was One Palace Bar & Grill, its last (and current) is John Varvados. In between it was the famous CBCG. (The paperback of Tenements, Towers & Trash is coming out this May, preorder now!)

a new, improved, (way more portable) paperback edition of Tenements, Towers & Trash is coming out May 6th! Be a pal and preorder a copy at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/julia... or get a signed one from me at a book event!

News you can use (an email from my son’s school)

Soliciting opinions! From people on both sides (as in people vocalizing a mental health struggle and people hearing about it). TBH it surprises me that this is still an issue since we live in an era where a mental health struggle is an appropriate response to what’s going on in the world at large.

This October in Ann Arbor!!

Imagine getting a book at the thrift store that you think is science fiction and fantasy and all the main character does is go to work and complain a lot. (Also this is a paperback, it should be no more than $1)

Goddammit

This has been stuck in my head for a month. I’m not mad about it since what was stuck in there before was just as ludicrous

Chili cheese fries being these rich biohackers’ kryptonite seems like a useful fact to tuck into your brain pocket

Aging is fun! I’m handling it so well!!! 😵‍💫 If you want to read an incredibly boring breakdown of this tax stuff, I explained it on the P*treon post for absolutely no reason. And there’s another diary comic on there for subscribers.

I drew the crawling baby body but my 4 y/o added a head and “eyes all over its body” and now it’s the monster from The Substance

Why are so many reels like “did you know you can just do whatever the fuck you want whenever you want?” And then it cuts to a lampshade or car dashboard covered in hot glued sea shells.

Reader, I did not tell her, but only because I then said “the answer is in the question” and I think she got it

hey artists, now would be time to submit your doodles of taking a shit on the flag (or in this case the declaration of independence) because wow this sucks

I don’t fully understand this joke but I think about it a lot and laff. Jack is still alive and well! She lives with my mom now to avoid death by squirrel. (Our house has perpetually open doors and the squirrels are mean.) She’s 16 years old and still a sassy little bitch

Got my cast doodled by famous local cartoonists! @thiendog.bsky.social @juddwinick.bsky.social @juliawertz.bsky.social @brianabreaks.bsky.social

I’m 42 now and still wearing slip on Vans because *slowly fades into a fog of who the fuck cares*

Some very cool songs and some deeply dorky ones. Go get @brianabreaks.bsky.social’s new book Raised By Ghosts and re-experience YOUR 90s teen years *shudder* from the safety of middle age

my name is on my house's mortgage/property title at the same level of ownership as my spouse, and yet, the vast majority (if not all) of the spam snail mail we get is addressed to only him. I'm just an "et al" in the eyes of home improvement companies trying to sell us new windows or an HVAC system

This Anders Nilsen book is so beautiful. I’ve read bits of it over the years but to see it like this is *chef’s kiss* I love his work so much. And it has french flaps inside?!

What’s next?! I made this when Felix was a threenager, thinking that was the worst it was gonna get, and Satan thing was a joke. But it turned out to be prophetic and now we’re deep into the “ferocious fours.” Cool cool cool. (More comics on the p’tron)

Behold

If you need to procrastinate today, perhaps help me brainstorm how to safely get this large dead detached branch to finally fall from the redwood it’s dangling in? It’s right above Felix’s play area so it’s gotta go. Recent rains and winds have not budged it. It’s securely snagged at the very top

Over the next 4 years it's going to be extra important to: - practice self-care - provide support to those close to you - go undercover and destroy the federal government from the inside, making the top brass turn on each other, leaving chaos and corpses in their wake - meditate

The two miracles in my life for which I am the most grateful: the birth of my son and the fact that there is no video footage of me as a teenager.

some more ridiculous tweets to "housewife" poems for y'all to cleanse the cursed timeline