Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection
by Julia Wertz
The Fart Party (Collections and Selections — Volumes 1-3, more)
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"For almost two decades, Julia Wertz has been documenting her life's most intimate, absurd, and amusing moments through a whimsical and hilarious diary comic book called The Fart Party. Wertz retells childhood antics that end in scars and swears. She tracks, in real-time, her young adulthood as she forgot her college graduation, traveled cross country via train, and drank her way through a harsh break-up. After receiving much acclaim (and controversy), The Fart Party became a series of show more self-published mini-comics, eventually collected into two volumes, published by Atomic Books. Long out of print, Museum of Mistakes collects anything and everything that is The Fart Party. PLUS: numerous pages of Julia's early comic work, unpublished and previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains, and more. This massive tome begs the question, "what is a Fart Party?" And the answer is... you'll have to read to find out!"-- show lessTags
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A massive collection of most of Julia Wertz's Fart Party material. I read the first two volumes a decade ago, but I thought it a good idea to revisit them in this handy chunk of book before diving into Wertz's new graphic memoir, Impossible People. Everything is still felt fresh and funny with the exception of some insensitive language which Wertz apologizes for up front. I appreciate that she didn't edit out the offensive stuff though, giving us a warts and all look at her early work.
I'm often put off by books that center around a person with a substance abuse problem, but somehow Wertz's cartoon avatar stays adorable despite her drinking. The bathroom humor and her introverted personality kept me hooked as she wandered around show more California and made her way to New York City. It's sort of fun to track her growing popularity as a creator as more and more indy cartoonists start making cameo appearances in her strips, hanging out and working with her.
It took me nearly a week to get through this brick, but it was time well spent.
FOR REFERENCE:
Table of Contents for Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection, 2014, 400 pages:
• 1 - The Fart Party Vol. 1: Drawn/happened in 2005/2006, published in 2007.
• 2 - The Fart Party Vol. 2: Drawn/happened in 2006/2007, published in 2009.
• 3 - What Would Have Been The Fart Party Vol. 3, Had I Made It Instead I made Drinking at the Movies. The random comics I made during 2008-2012 unpublished make up this section.
• 4 - Sugar Pill Comix - The earliest early work that was never shown or published anywhere, for obvious reasons.
• 5 - Behind the Scenes - Process pages and sketchbook illustrations.
• 6 - Zines n' Things - Scraps from early zines, fan (hate) mail, interviews, magazine articles, short stories, etc. . . .
Table of Contents for Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection, 2023, 528 pages:
• Introduction: An Illustrated Guide to The Museum of Mistakes
• The Fart Party Vol. 1: Published in 2006 by Atomic Books [with Foreword and contribution by Peter Bagge and contribution by Josh Wertz]
• The Fart Party Vol. 2: Published in 2009 by Atomic Books [with Foreword by Nicholas Gurewitch]
• (What Would Have Been) The Fart Party Vol. 3: If I had made it. Instead I made Drinking at the Movies, a graphic novel about moving to NYC that follows Vol. 2. This section is all the unpublished, random comics I made during that time that were not put into a book
• Sketches by Laura Park and Myself: Done in Chicago and NYC, 2006-2012
• Sketchbook: Random doodles, commissioned pieces, promo art, etc.
• Sugarpill Comix: The earliest comics I made that were never published anywhere, for reasons that will be obvious when you get to this section.
• The Legend of Rebob Mountain: A semi-fictionalized version of true events that happened during my childhood in the 1980's.
• Addendum: The Fart Party's Over: A "graphic essay" I did for Narrativly in 2014, explaining why I quit making comics for a while. show less
I'm often put off by books that center around a person with a substance abuse problem, but somehow Wertz's cartoon avatar stays adorable despite her drinking. The bathroom humor and her introverted personality kept me hooked as she wandered around show more California and made her way to New York City. It's sort of fun to track her growing popularity as a creator as more and more indy cartoonists start making cameo appearances in her strips, hanging out and working with her.
It took me nearly a week to get through this brick, but it was time well spent.
FOR REFERENCE:
Table of Contents for Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection, 2014, 400 pages:
• 1 - The Fart Party Vol. 1: Drawn/happened in 2005/2006, published in 2007.
• 2 - The Fart Party Vol. 2: Drawn/happened in 2006/2007, published in 2009.
• 3 - What Would Have Been The Fart Party Vol. 3, Had I Made It Instead I made Drinking at the Movies. The random comics I made during 2008-2012 unpublished make up this section.
• 4 - Sugar Pill Comix - The earliest early work that was never shown or published anywhere, for obvious reasons.
• 5 - Behind the Scenes - Process pages and sketchbook illustrations.
• 6 - Zines n' Things - Scraps from early zines, fan (hate) mail, interviews, magazine articles, short stories, etc. . . .
Table of Contents for Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection, 2023, 528 pages:
• Introduction: An Illustrated Guide to The Museum of Mistakes
• The Fart Party Vol. 1: Published in 2006 by Atomic Books [with Foreword and contribution by Peter Bagge and contribution by Josh Wertz]
• The Fart Party Vol. 2: Published in 2009 by Atomic Books [with Foreword by Nicholas Gurewitch]
• (What Would Have Been) The Fart Party Vol. 3: If I had made it. Instead I made Drinking at the Movies, a graphic novel about moving to NYC that follows Vol. 2. This section is all the unpublished, random comics I made during that time that were not put into a book
• Sketches by Laura Park and Myself: Done in Chicago and NYC, 2006-2012
• Sketchbook: Random doodles, commissioned pieces, promo art, etc.
• Sugarpill Comix: The earliest comics I made that were never published anywhere, for reasons that will be obvious when you get to this section.
• The Legend of Rebob Mountain: A semi-fictionalized version of true events that happened during my childhood in the 1980's.
• Addendum: The Fart Party's Over: A "graphic essay" I did for Narrativly in 2014, explaining why I quit making comics for a while. show less
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- Original title
- Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection
- Alternate titles
- Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection; Museum of Mistakes
- Original publication date
- 2014
- People/Characters
- Julia Wertz; Oliver Trixl; Josh Wertz (older brother of Julia Wertz); Cheryl Wertz (mother of Julia Wertz, a/k/a Cheryl Anderson); friend Shelby; Jonathan Wertz (younger brother of Julia Wertz) (show all 42); Ron Wertz (father of Julia Wertz); Guns N' Roses; Peter Bagge; Greg Means (a/k/a Clutch McBastard); Mary Van Note; Robyn Chapman; Joelle Spinelli; Sarah Glidden; Tom Hart; Gabrielle Bell; Laura Park; Aaron Renier; Kaz Strzepek; Keith Knight; Shannon O'Leary; Jesse Reklaw; Craig Thompson; Andrice Arp; Trevor Alixopulos; Vanessa Davis; Karen Sneider; Johnny Ryan; Lizzy Caplan; Sean Bonnette (of Andrew Jackson Jihad); Andrew Jackson Jihad (musical group); Peter Pan; Jason Bateman; Kate Beaton; Pip the squirrel; Goat (a goat); Lisa Hanawalt; Domitille Collardey-Adebimpe; Hobo Spider; Tank Girl; Flying Monkeys; Rebobs (flying monkeys of Napa, California)
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA; Vermont, USA; South Royalton, Vermont, USA; Rhode Island, USA; New York, New York, USA; Napa, California, USA (show all 8); Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA; Arizona, USA
- First words
- Well, at least I remembered the beer. [Pity Party for One]
Dear Kind Reader,
If you are at all familiar with the work in this collection, you're probably expecting me to use this preface to apologive [sic] for myself. [Introduction] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Don't worry, lil' me, someday you'll be almost a real woman!
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- Two distinct editions:
Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection, 2014, 400 pages.
Museum of Mistakes: The Definitive Fart Party Collection, 2023, 528 pages.
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
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- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
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- PN6727 .W435 .M87 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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