Annica's Diary

Gynoid Distribution is proud to be a distributor of Jonathan Rotsztain's modern day queer camp classic ANNICA'S DIARY! Follow Annica's adventures through her home that DEFINITELY ISN'T a notable Toronto sex club and meet all her misanthropic kinky pals!

Annica's Diary #1
40 pages, full colour, 6.69" x 10.24". Annica Bungalow is a clueless, spoiled heiress with a heart made of gold! She and her gang exist in realms of endless possibilities, including eventually, maybe, class consciousness… Annica’s cooky, campy, chronicles are a rip-off, send-up, take-down, love-in, satire, parody, homage, adoring tribute… well, you get it — to classic American comic books, especially the repetitive (yet still experimental) floppy newsstand publications of the 1980s and 90s. In reverence to the source material, the comic is colored using (mostly, almost) only the fun fifty-color palette that defined the ‘Bronze Age’ of mainstream comics, due to printing press limitations of the period.

Bio
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 Needs 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://rotsztain.com, https://pulping.fun/ and https://zinedump.fyi/ for more.