Cover reveal and open call! 🌸 Attention Cartoonists: Call for Pitches - Contribute a story to Annica’s Diary 2!! 🌼 Following the success of Annica’s Diary 1, I’m seeking pitches for 1-3 page stories featuring Annica and her gang. Final penciled, inked and lettered pages due Monday April 20, 2026. I will colour the final artwork. One time compensation of $30/page. We will both retain copyright and ability to reprint the pages, with each of us agreeing to credit the other in any reproductions. 🌸 Pitches due Monday January 19, 2026. Please DM me with any questions 🌼 I’m so excited for your pitches!! 🌸
💜 Self-Loving Jew Needs Love issue 3 will debut in 1 month, this May 11-12 @torontocomics 💜 The chapter is about my teens/early 20s and includes my account of my Birthright trip to Israel. This volume touches on the pain and violence in lands from river to sea but does not adequately face the current realities plaguing Palestine. Even still as part of the greater narrative I wrote in 2020, I hope it is a small beacon of a path to peace 💜
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✨PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT! ✨On May 8, join our opening night panel discussion: Holding it Together: Building + Sustaining Collective Publishing Projects. Featuring @sadvember + @coldnachos on Pulping, @photoedmagazine , and @arty_izzy + @theshycreative on @ottdesignclub Moderated by @carleton_u associate professor Benjamin Woo.
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This panel brings together artists and organizers working across comics, graphic design and photography-driven independent publications to share how their projects are initiated, structured, and sustained over time and the communities that are fostered alongside it. Panelists will also reflect on what it means when the goal of an initiative has been met. When is it necessary to pause, transform, or let a collective publishing project go?
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Presented by @possibleworldsshop Object//Project Art Book Fair is a multi-day gathering which celebrates diverse and boundary-pushing artists’ publishing. Free and open to the public, fair visitors will experience artist talks, workshops, installations, outdoor activations, music performances + more alongside the work of 60+ exhibitors from across Canada and beyond.
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Friday May 8 // 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday May 9 // 11:00am – 6:00pm
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa)
RSVP + donate to help sustain this 100% community-funded initiative > link in bio
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Annica and I are cruising Canada 🐓🐓 Come see us at a free book fair!
🍁 @objectprojectartbookfair by @possibleworldsshop
May 8+9: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC), 290 Lisgar St, Ottawa
Fri May 8: 5-9pm
Sat May 9: 11am-6pm
I’ll be on the panel “Holding it Together: Building + Sustaining Collective Publishing Projects” on Fri May 8 at 6pm talking Pulping with @coldnachos plus @photoedmagazine@ottdesignclub excited to talk indi arts + tour the capital
🍁@torontocomics
June 6+7: Mattamy Athletic Centre
Sat June 6: 9am-5pm
Sun June 7: 10am-5pm
🍁@prairiecomicsfestival
Winnipeg Sept 5+6: Manitoba Museum
See you soon Canada 🐔🐔🐣
My page from the @zinedump.fyi Collective Zine, plus some other photos from the best zine fair ever 🗑️ Zine Dump was such a pleasure to co-organize and be a part of, a true manifestation of values made real 🗑️ A huge thanks to my co-founders and our sponsors @cecilcentre@netplazafans@thebeguiling@awesomefoundgta your support was invaluable 🗑️ Looks like we’ll be back next year!! Long Live Zines 🗑️🗑️
City of Craft starts today! Make sure to find Annica, one of Jonathan Rotsztain’s characters in the Small Zine + Paper Goods room!
Jonathan Rotsztain is an artist, writer and dreamer based in Toronto. His autobiographical and fiction comics and zines deal with class, identity and self-esteem while using the power of drawing and storytelling to conjure the fantastic. He recently completed Annica’s Diary, a 44-page romp starting an out of touch heiress with a heart *made of* gold. He’s currently working on his Self-Loving Jew Need Love graphic novel. Rotsztain is one of the co-editors of Pulping, an Ontario comics anthology spanning two volumes. Pulping v1 won Outstanding Anthology and Outstanding Story at the 2024 SPX Ignatz Awards. Rotsztain is a co-founder and organizer of Zine Dump, a new Toronto zine fair. Check out , https://pulping.fun/ and https://zinedump.fyi/ for more.
🎁 City of Craft
📅 December 5-7, 2025
🎟️ $5 entry fee (FREE for kids 12 and under)
📍 The Theatre Centre
1115 Queen St West
#Toronto #Craft #Market #Holidays #HandMade
🎭 This weekend Annica and I will be tabling @cityofcraft Fri Dec 5: 6-10pm, Sat Dec 6: 11am-6pm and Sun Dec 7: 11am-6pm @thetheatrecentre 1115 Queen Street West on the first floor as part of the Zine + Small Paper Market! 🎭 Come grab your copy of Annica’s Diary 1, along with both Pulping anthologies, various other comics, zines and more!! 🎭 As a bonus, learn more about the mysterious genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Theatre Centre!! Who could she be? 🎭🎭👻👻👻
🐶 Applications are open for @torontocomics 2026 🐶 Here’s a photo of a comic I made for Still Zine TCAF 2025 edition that I stretched a bit then coloured. Original photo second slide 📸🐶🐶🐶
PULPING volume 1 & 2 are now available at the Toronto Public Library. Check them out and read our comics please :) And then come visit us on November 29 @houndstoothto for a special party celebrating volume 2 with readings from the book. 8-10pm.
