Museum of Mistakes, Julia Wertz's massive new softcover collection from Uncivilized Books lives up to its sub-title, as it is surely, "the definitive Fart Party collection." Not only does it collect the entirety of the two long-out-of-print volumes of The Fart Party published by Atomic Books in the 'aughts, but it also includes "(What Would Have Been) The Fart Party Volume 3", which consists of "all the unpublished random comics I mad during that time that were not put into a book."  Also included are: "Sketches by Laura Park and Myself"; "Sketchbook"; "Sugarpill Comix"; "The Legend of Rebob Mountain"; and an addendum; 528 pages in all!

"What is 'The Fart Party'?" you may ask.  It is a series of – mostly – one-page strips that work to capture the experience of early adulthood on the fly in a simple, cartooned style informed by an innate sense of comic timing.  Operating in modes that wildly vary between self-revelation, self-reflection, self-analysis, self-doubt, self-hate and self-promotion, Wertz details a teeming multitude of quotidian events, thoughts, feelings, fantasies and problems. 

It's the kind of book that can be read straight through, in order, but that lends itself to being picked up and opened at random whenever you're feelng like a quick "comics hit." 

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