Review by Booklist Review
Originally published in 2010, Drinking at the Movies chronicles the author-artist's first year living in New York City as a twenty-something a couple years out of college. To tell us about it, Wertz divides the book-year by seasons and apartments, with most inked, black-and-white comics spanning six or twelve frames. In a year full of ups and downs (and downs), most day-in-the-life-of vignettes provoke lots of laughs and end on light notes, but Wertz's childish faces and frames are deceptively simple. She has plenty to say, and does. Often silly and irreverent, (her first published comic strip was called Fart Party), Wertz is serious, too, in addressing her drinking, her autoimmune disease, and her fears for the wayward brother she left behind in San Francisco. In the book's final pages, Wertz, who also pens the New Yorker's occasional N.Y.C Mystery History Hour cartoon feature, shares arrestingly accurate full-page drawings of her city's landmarks. Koyama's reprint edition includes a zany forward by comedian and Wertz fan Janeane Garafolo.--Bostrom, Annie Copyright 2016 Booklist
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