Short Run 2024 @ Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion

Comics’ big day 📚

📸: Short Run

📆 Saturday, November 2nd
🕓 11 am – 6 pm
🎟 Free
📍 Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion: 305 Harrison St, Seattle

One of my favorite fall activities is the Short Run Comix Festival. For one day every November, comics lovers from near and far descend upon Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center to meet hundreds of DIY comic artists, cartoonists, and like-minded punks selling limited-run zines, stickers, calendars, comic books, memoirs, patches, pins, and other manner of printed goods. Long rows of tables are stuffed with cool things to flip through and people queued up to chat with vendors—the whole event is a jam-packed with visual stimuli. My tip: plan out a budget ahead of time and bring cash.

In addition to exhibitors, there will also be workshops and talks associated with the event. During the afternoon, there will be 40-minute creative conversations every hour on the hour outside of Fisher Pavilion by lauded artists like Mita MahatoTara BoothTetsunori TawarayaZak Sally, and more. There will also be special guests at the fest, including 2024 Short Run poster designer Joakim Drescher, cartoonist Cara Bean, and graphic novelist/illustrator Julia Gfrörer. Once the fest shuts down, head over to Mini Mart City Park for the official after-party, where you can find a haunted photo booth, cash bar, and food truck and hang out with other artists and attendees. (Plus, it’s the soft opening of the gallery’s new show Draw No Matter What.)

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An author pic of Jas Keimig. They have blue braids.

Jas Keimig

Jas Keimig is an arts and culture writer in Seattle. Their work has previously appeared in The Stranger, i-D, Netflix, and Feast Portland. They won a game show once and have a thing for stickers.