Save the date for the 7th annual Comix & Arts Festival at Fisher Pavilion and The Vera Project at Seattle Center on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. Registration is now open! (Closes July 31, don’t delay!)
We are thrilled to welcome the hilarious Gemma Correll to Short Run on 11/4! She is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator. Her books are: A Cat’s Life, A Pug’s Guide to Etiquette, and The Worrier’s Guide to Life. Gemma is a regular contributor to GoComics.com (with her popular Four Eyes cartoon) and she has produced illustrations for The Nib, Hallmark, The New York Times, Oxford University Press, The Observer and (MHA) Mental Health America. Read more…
Welcome Leela Corman as a special guest for this year’s festival! We have followed her work since the early 1990’s (starting with “Subway Series”!) She is an illustrator, cartoonist, and Middle Eastern dancer. Read more…
Click for class descriptions & how to register! All classes except Paint & Sip are sliding scale admission (or free!) and financial assistance is available (please write to us at [email protected] to inquire.) Read more…
We are very excited to welcome French artist Flora Kam to Short Run on Nov. 4th! She is a comic artist, graphic designer, and co-founder of Plus Zero (with Xavier de Kepper), which facilitates collaborative micropublishing and other projects between artists, with a focus on artists in France and Vietnam. Read more…
We are thrilled to announce illustrator and comic artist Jordan Crane will be joining us for Short Run on November 4, 2017! As well as being a special guest at the festival, Jordan also designed this year’s festival poster! Read more…
We are excited to be bringing graphic novelist (“Rosalie Lightening”, “Hutch Owen”) and founder of The Sequential Artist’s Workshop (SAW) in Gainesville, Florida Tom Hart to Seattle for Short Run Comix & Arts Festival this November! Read more…
Rebecca’s proposed comic re-tells the Mexican urban legend/ghost story of La Llorona (the weeping woman). The comic will include retablos (devotional paintings) dedicated to her legend, as well as interactive ghost story instructions for the reader, spells, brujeria (witchcraft), and will be done entirely from La Llorona’s silent, observant perspective. We were captivated by her beautiful gouache paintings and story synapsis and are excited to see the finished comic! Read more…
Our 3rd annual Trailer Blaze Ladies Comics & Books Residency has concluded and was a great success! Read more…
Help support Short Run’s Micropress by joining our Mini-comics Club! Want mini-comics delivered to your door every month? Donors at the $120 level will receive a Short Run tote bag and 1 mini-comic every month to fill it up. We have curated a selection of Pacific Northwest artists who represent the look and feel of Short Run. Read more…
Now available in our shop! Relay is the 4th in a series of festival anthologies. Intricate folds guide you through four stories with illustrated intermissions. Riso-printed 2-color combo pages printed by Cold Cube Press with screen-printed cuff by Jon Horn/Fogland Studios.
