The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

Three autobiographical graphic novels. The stories in this collection contain Julia Wertz's signature acerbic wit, ribald humor, and keen eye for the everyday, but they also find the cartoonist delving more deeply into the personal. "Industry" catalogues 25 years of alternately terrible and terrific jobs. "A Strange and Curious Place" is a love letter to Wertz's hometown library. "The Infinite Wait,'" chronicles Wertz's move from her small hometown to San Francisco, her diagnosis with an incurable, auto-immune disease and her subsequent discovery of comics and comic making. Wertz details her struggles with Lupus a chronic disease that has 1.5 to 2 million patients in the United States alone. Wertz's honest portrayal of the disease and her diagnosis will appeal to those familiar with it, but also to anyone interested and inspired by an individual learning to deal with an illness and finding her life's work in the process. -- Publisher description