Career
Wertz made her name with a comic strip titled The Fart Party, which Atomic Books anthologized in two volumes in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Soon after the strip"s success, she retired The Fart Party, claiming she was unaware of its impending significance at the time of its creation. Wertz subsequently moved her online operations to the Museum of Mistakes site, where a few old Fart Party strips exist in the archive.
In 2010, Random House published Drinking at the Movies, Wertz"s first full-length graphic memoir.
Against the backdrop of her move from San Francisco to New York, the book details serious issues, such as a family member"s battle with substance abuse and her own alcoholism, with trademark wit and self-effacement. In 2014, Atomic Books released Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection, which anthologized Wertz"s early books, plus new and extra material.
In 2015, Wertz started a monthly comics series for The New Yorker, about lesser known historical events and facts about New York City, as well as a monthly illustration series of cityscapes for Harper"s Magazine. Wertz currently lives in Brooklyn, New New York
She also runs Adventure Bible School, a blog about urban exploring.