Julia Wertz is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part time urban explorer/photographer. She has published five graphic novels, including the Eisner nominees Drinking at the Movies and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories. She currently does a monthly comic installment about New York City history for The New Yorker, a monthly cityscape illustration series for Harper’s Magazine, and a monthly comic with her brother, for The Believer. Her photography of abandoned places has appeared in The New York Post, the Daily Mail, and other publications. In residence in 2018, worked on research, writing and illustrations for two upcoming graphic novels. The first is a followup to Tenements, Towers, & Trash, about people, history, and workspaces, and the other is about Julia's last years in New York City. She also worked on an illustrated piece about women of history for an anthology being put out by Knopf.
Julia Wertz
Studios
Garland
Julia Wertz worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…