Retirement message from Eroyn Franklin, co-founder and Creative Director Read more…
Short Run Comix Festival
THANK YOU SEATTLE! Our 2024 festival was a great success because of you!
Our next festival will take place on Saturday, November 1st, 2025 at Seattle Design Center. Exhibitor applications will be open June 1 – July 31.
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Trailer Blaze 2018
Dash Grant winner 2018 November Garcia
We’re excited to announce that November Garcia is our Dash grant winner for 2018. We are looking forward to helping her publish Marlarkey #3, her autobiographical mini-comic. Garcia is a cartoonist born and raised in the Philippines. She lived in San Francisco for most of her 20s and 30s but has now moved back home. We are interested in the comics she makes documenting this change of lifestyle. We can’t wait to have her at Short Run in November! Read more…
Dash Winner 2017 Rebecca Artemisa
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…
Trailer Blaze 2017
Our 3rd annual Trailer Blaze Comics & Books Residency has concluded and was a great success! Read more…
Comix Workshops with International Guests
We had a great time at Seattle Public Library Downtown and the South Park Library! Ivana Pipal and Inés Estrada led students in making their own mini-comics and collaborating together.
Trailer Blaze 2016
We had a great time at The Sou’Wester for our 2nd annual Trailer Blaze residency! Read more…
Dash Winner 2016 Brendan Kiefer
The winner of 2016 The Dash grant – recent Seattle transplant, Brendan Kiefer! Read more…
Short Run Education in the Community
Trailer Blaze 2015
Our first Trailer Blaze residency was a success, and so much fun! Eroyn Franklin, Kelly Froh, Janice Headley, Sarah Stuteville, Jessica Hoffman, Robyn Jordan, Mita Mahato, and Lee Bess hunkered down to work on their projects, give & receive feedback, take walks on the beach, and join up for great meals! Read more…
Dash Winner 2015 Krish Raghav
Our first Dash Grant winner is Krish Raghav, for his travelogue comic “Estilo Hindu”. Read more…