Julia Wertz has published her third collection of autobiographical comics, originally from her webcomic "Fart Party". A lot of the humor is pretty juvenile, but there are some really funny points (and even more that would have been funnier if I hadn't read the preview before.) After Julia's life gets difficult in San Francisco, she makes the impulsive decision to move to New York. Over the course of a year and several terrible jobs, she learns to love and loathe her new city. She covers some truly difficult points in her life - her brother is an addict who O.D.'s after leaving rehab, her stepfather is diagnosed with cancer - but even at the roughest times she is sassy and funny.Overall it was a little disorganized, but it was funny enough and interesting enough that this didn't matter to me so much. It was a fun book. I would say the majority of the comics were covered on her website, or at least aspects of them. Autobiographical graphic novel about a diminutive young cartoonist who moves from SF to Brooklyn after her breakup. She leaves behind her family, including her drug-addicted brother whom she worries about. She herself has considerable problems with alcohol and drinks bottles of beer at the movies and hangs out at bars with her friends. She quite the West Coast anti-fashionista who thinks NY hipsters dress fancy. She doesn’t date, except one anecdote of falling asleep drunk on a park bench (she being a 5’2” woman who looks like a 12 yr old girl) after an internet date that is not a repeater. In the end, she gets her life in order and succeeds at her cartooning ambitions--this book being evidence.The most impressive thing about the book: blurbs on the back by Fiona Apple and Paul Constant (who is the one who no doubt put me on to this book). Interesting enough read, but not much language-wise and mediocre cartooning (elbows like macaroni). I kept trying to figure out the character’s eyes, one of which is oblong vertically. I guess it’s a running joke that it’s not always the same eye that’s odd shaped. Meh. Okay, I liked her post-feminist independence.
What do You think about Whisky & Nueva York (2013)?
Hilarious collection of comics about moving to NYC and the hijinks that ensued.
—recalderamirez
I laughed precisely once while reading this.
—Spankeh
