📅 Saturday, November 4th
⏰ 11 am – 6 pm
📍 Fisher Pavilion: 305 Harrison St, Seattle
🎟 Free to attend
🗺️ Find a table map of all the visiting artists here
This November, the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival will return for its eleventh year in Seattle! Short Run isn’t a typical comic con—it’s free and held in one giant room—but it draws impressive crowds every year, often having lines just to get in. If you’re worried about COVID risk, well… fair, but note that it’s at Fisher Pavilion, one of the best-ventilated venues in the entire city.
About 250 artists will attend this year, showing off their zines, comics, and other book-related art. Here are some artists to get excited about:
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Every year, Short Run gives out a “Dash Grant” that awards one artist $500 to debut a comic at the festival. Molly Colleen O’Connell received the grant this year and plans to show off a mini-comic called “Pebbles #2.” Her works are sketchy and organic, often featuring intentionally discordant colors that leave the viewer with a striking impression.
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They also award five “Katie Kelso Travel Grants” to make it more accessible for artists traveling to the festival. Lucia and Rodrigo, two artists from S.A.R.A. (Sociedad Anónima Reproducción Autogestiva), are notably coming all the way from Mexico, bringing their bright, vivid style along with them.
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Pro tip: You can get involved in the art-making! Paper Press Punch, a community print org, will help attendees make their own zines. They also plan to host artist interviews right outside of Fisher. If all this doesn’t sound fun enough, they’re handing out swag bags to the first 50 people through the doors!
This article was written on special assignment for The Ticket through the TeenTix Press Corps, a teen arts journalism program run by TeenTix, a youth empowerment and arts access nonprofit organization.
