What have we been up to and what do we have planned? Check out this article by Paul Constant for Crosscut.
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“DECADE: 10 years of Short Run Comix & Arts Festival” (a festival in a book)
Advanced copies are available for $40 (includes shipping, US addresses only).
The first 200 copies sold also receive a limited edition, two-sided, Risograph poster with art by Jasjyot Singh Hans and Eroyn Franklin, designed and printed by Hocus Pocus Press.
Looking for online comics workshops?
There’s lots of great online content out there to keep you inspired and help you keep up your drawing and comics-making practice. Read more…
Short Run Catalog
We would like to help you promote that new release you weren’t able to debut at Short Run in 2020, or likely in 2021, by producing a free catalog that will be distributed to comic book stores, bookstores, art centers, and other organizations and individuals across the country who want to help share your work. Remember the Scholastic book order catalog? Like that! Read more…
Year in Review/ Annual Report
Dear Friends of Short Run,
We are finding it hard to make a closing statement about 2020: It was hard, confusing, shocking/not shocking, boring, scary, and it went on and on. The best we could do was stay present and hold our community close. This year-end report shares what we did to make it through. Your donations and your support helped keep the lights on throughout it all.
Short Run Logo Masks
Show your community that you’d like to attend a comic festival again one day! These logo masks are made locally by Misty Mountain Mfg. in Georgetown! They will be generously donating 50% of the profits to us! Here’s an easy way to order from our etsy site!
Short Run presents a socially-distanced public display of Robyn Jordan’s Covid-19 Comics
What has it meant to live through this time? It’s been different for each of us, but many of our experiences are shared. We’ve watched our collective anxiety creep to a boiling point as we’ve learned to fear one another’s touch and presence. Read more…
Blazers art show featuring work from 2020 Trailer Blaze residents
Short Run and Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery present: BLAZERS NOV 14 – DEC 09 Read more…
HOT MACHINES a Risograph art show
Short Run and Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery present: HOT MACHINES
OCT 10 – NOV 11 (all day opening on Saturday, October 10th)
Hot Machines is a Risograph art show featuring prints and books printed at Paper Press Punch (Jessica Hoffman & Justin Quinlan, Georgetown) and Cold Cube Press (Aidan Fitzgerald & Michael Heck, Pioneer Square), two homegrown small businesses hanging on through it all – Read more…
Thank you Literary Arts Emergency Fund!
Short Run is honored to be among the grantees! This is the first relief grant we have received and it gives us hope that we can outlast the COVID-19 disaster.
The Literary Arts Emergency Fund, launched and administered by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine & Presses, and the National Book Foundation, has announced that it will distribute $3.5 million in emergency funding to 282 nonprofit literary arts organizations, magazines, and publishers who have been severely financially affected by COVID-19. The organizations receiving support have cumulatively reported over $27 million in financial losses and are projecting over $48 million in financial losses in the next year. Literary Arts Emergency Fund was established “in response to the lack of institutional support for the nonprofit organizations and presses that sustain literary culture in the U.S.,” and was made possibly by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read more here.
Please continue to wear a mask and social distance!
New Short Run T-shirt
Thank you so much to everyone who bought a t-shirt and made a donation!! We were able to donate $870.40 to Wa Na Wari, one of our neighborhood partners!
We have just a few t-shirts left from a 2nd printing – visit our shop!