Dreary Diary Comics

Jonathan Rotsztain's Daily Sketchbook Comics, since 2013

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🐶 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 📸🐶🐶🐶

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🚀 Winter comic on my usual theme of utopia vs dystopia for @endlessfret Still Zine 16! 🌞 Thanks to @netplazafans for hosting ✨ Here’s to a future of prosperity and peace, ideally murder free!! 💀👿🤖🤡💩

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Five diary comics made for each issue of Still Zine this summer

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This year I was part of a five person editorial team who produced and published a brand new comics collection that is now nominated for two major American awards.

Pulping Volume One: Comics on Comics is an 144-page anthology featuring 35 Toronto-area cartoonists making work on the meta theme of comic books, including an original nine page story by yours truly.

Pulping is now up for two Ignatz Awards at the annual Small Press Expo @SPX the biggest/best east coast USA indi-comics show!!

Outstanding Anthology and Outstanding Story for the original contribution "The Happy Art" by contributor Sami Alwani.

If you're not already, I would be so grateful if you would please register to vote for the Ignatz Awards and cast your ballots for Pulping and Sami!

Anyone can register and vote. The awards ceremony is Saturday Sept 14 and voting is open until at least Sept 12.

Once you register to vote via the simple form you will receive a ballot link by email. Then it's just a matter of clicking through and voting for Pulping.

If you do register, please keep an eye on your spam folder for the ballot link email.

Want your own copy of Pulping? Let me know and I'd be happy to sell you a physical copy for the low price of only $20. We are now working on a digital edition and Volume 2.

TLDR: register to vote for the Ignatz Awards and vote Pulping!

AND: Read more about Pulping on CBC Arts

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Hello - I’m an exhibitor at @torontocomics #TCAF2024 - Come find me May 11-12 at the Toronto Reference Library. I’ll have all my work for sale including Self-Loving Jew Needs Love #3 and the debut Toronto-area Pulping anthology, which I co-edited and have a brand new 9 page comic in! Happy TCAF!!

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Thanks again forever and always to @endlessfret for Still Zine these last few months 𝓢𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 ≋S≋t≋i≋l≋l≋ 𝕊𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝

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Happy Holidaze 🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻🧑🏻‍🎄🎄

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My latest for Still Zine VIII — Showing not telling! Showing not telling!! How’d I do?!!

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😭😭😭 Can you believe it’s Sadvember already? ☹️😖😢😩🥺 New comic for Still Zine VII

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Catching up on posting Dreary Diary! This October strip is from Still Zine VI!!

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😍 SponCon: I'm a Featured #DrawnTogetherArtist on @DrawnTogetherApp !!! 😍 #DrawnTogether digitally adapts the "head, middle, legs" folded paper drawing game, commonly known as Exquisite Corpse 😎 The app is genuinely fun to use: you pick a segment and connection lines then draw whatever you want. You combine your drawing with other segments drawn by yourself or other users to make a complete work of art, that you can then enjoy in black and white or colour in to make the final really pop! 😋 I'm one of dozens of Featured Artists on @ DrawnTogetherApp and it's a who's who of local makers. The app developers are genuinely wholesome, and the app really is a fun new platform to make and share drawings, especially the social aspect! Once you combine your segments with others you've got an instant collaboration. That extends to the community aspects of the app, including following your friends 😘 I've been using @ DrawnTogetherApp as a warm up before other drafting projects. It's been a great way to let loose (within some helpful parameters) before focusing on an intentional task 😝 I also really enjoyed drawing my in-app profile picture 😍 It's free to download on the Apple app store and Google Play #commission 😍

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I got Zucked

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🏡 Still Zine IV debuts this evening, 6pm at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk! ⛽️ I’m so grateful to once again share an original comic for this issue and to @endlessfret for putting yet another excellent edition together and more so for building and sustaining such a wonderful community of artists ⛽️ Join us! Submissions for Still 5 are due Saturday, September 30.

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😢 Still III Still III Still III 😭 Daddyo’s, chairs, grease 😫 Clean, clothes, free 🥺 Thanks as always to @endlessfret submit your diary comic to issue 4 by Sept 9 🥹

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🥲 Still Zine is back with issue 2 and another brand new Dreary Diary, this one about Summer in the City Nature Deficit Disorder 🍃🌿😭 A huge thanks to Jordan Fret for putting this together 😫 Please consider submitting to issue 3 - details on last slide 🩵💙💜

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🥲 Dreary Diary returns in @endlessfret Still Zine issue 1 🥹

First Still Zine features some great diary content from a bunch of talented artists and the project is just getting started 📝 Check out @endlessfret on ig to submit something for issue 2 📋 I’m also honoured to be in Fret’s May Diary via a drawn on the DS self-portrait and in a very cute group shot illustration from @fbdm_mtl 💖 Thank you Fret Aujir 🌞🥰

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See you in Montreal!