Seattle’s Short Run comics and arts festival is in it for the long run
Forced to cancel the 10th annual edition of the beloved small press event, organizers have three books and a new space in the works.
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In lieu of holding its 10th anniversary event in person, Short Run Comix & Arts Festival has been working on a commemorative book (cover designed by Eroyn Franklin). At right: Kelly Froh, Short Run co-founder and executive director, in the nonprofit’s first physical work space, which is shared with Paper Press Punch in Georgetown on May, 13, 2021. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
The last time thousands of Seattleites poured into the Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center for the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival was Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. On that day, people milled around the pavilion floor, browsing the zines, posters and comics that some 240 exhibitors had brought to the ninth annual event. They filed through a print-art show, packed into a dark room to watch a documentary about Seattle’s weirdo comics god Jim Woodring and jostled around a country/western-themed after-party at the Vera Project.