Places to Buy/Sell Comics & Zines (Seattle)
- Arcane Comics
- Dreamstrands
- Elliott Bay Book Company
- Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
- Golden Age Collectibles
- Left Bank Books
- Outsider Comics & Geek Boutique
- Phoenix Comics
- Push/Pull
Print Shops & Other Services (Seattle and Online)
- Buttonmakers.net/Brick City Printing (Buttons, buttonmakers, & parts)
- Color One Photo (Giclee and photo prints)
- Community Print [Olympia] (Letterpress, Workshops)
- Enviro-tote (Tote bags)
- Gorilla Screen Printing
- Grapheme (Letterpress printing & workshops)
- Ink Knife Press (Screen printing)
- Misty Mountain Mfg. (Sewn canvas goods)
- Pacific Publishing (Newsprint printing)
- Paper Press Punch (Risograph printing & workshops)
- Saigon Printing (Digital printing)
Professional Services for Artists (Seattle)
Zine & Comic Events Statewide
- Bellingham Comicon (Bellingham)
- Bremerton Zine Fest (Bremerton)
- Cartoonist’s Northwest (monthly meetings, Drink ‘n Draw)
- DUNE mini-comics drawing night (Hugo House, Capitol Hill, last Tuesday of month)
- Emerald City Comic-con (Seattle)
- Geek Girl Con (Seattle)
- Grit City Comic Show (Tacoma)
- KingConNW (Renton)
- Lariat Bar Monday Night dRAW & Drink (White Center, Seattle)
- Lilac City Comicon (Spokane)
- Lynnwood Drink-n-Draw (1st & 3rd Thursday 6 pm, Pub 44, Lynnwood)
- Olympia Comics Fest (Olympia) [on hiatus]
- Olympia Zine Fest (Olympia)
- PCNW’s Photo Zine & Book Fair (Seattle)
- Punk Rock Flea Market (Seattle & Tacoma)
- Seattle Anarchist Book Fair (Seattle)
- Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair (Seattle)
- Seattle Art Book Fair (Seattle)
- Seattle Zine Fest (Seattle)
- Sketcherz Drawing Club (Tuesdays, 6 pm, Holy Mountain in Phinney)
- Spokane Zine Fest (Spokane)
- SquatchCon (Port Angeles)
Comics & Zine commentary and reviews
- Broken Frontier
- Broken Pencil
- Bubbles fanzine (print review zine)
- Canon (print review zine)
- Cool Yeah Alright
- Comadres y comics (podcast)
- Comicsblogger (print review zine)
- Comics Bookcase
- Comics for Grownups (podcast)
- Comics Grinder
- The Comics Lounge (podcast)
- Comics Kayfabe! (youtube)
- The Bluto Review
- The Comics Journal
- The Comics Reporter (archive)
- Comixage
- Comix Claptrap (youtube)
- Drawing a Dialogue (podcast)
- Enemies of the State (podcast)
- Foggy At Best
- For the love of Indie (podcast)
- The Graphic Novel Podcast
- Gutter Boys (podcast)
- High Low Comics
- Inkstuds (podcast)
- In This Issue… (podcast)
- Long Arm Stapler (a podcast about zines)
- Make It Then Tell Everybody (podcast)
- Manga Chat (youtube show/ Simon Hanselmann, Josh Pettinger & guests)
- Maximum Rocknroll
- New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium (youtube)
- Noah Van Sciver Cartoonist Talks (youtube)
- Optical Sloth
- Panel Patter
- PanelxPanel
- The Panelist
- Paul Gravett Blog
- Razorcake
- Refreshing Rectangles
- Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse
- Sequential State
- Strangers fanzine
- The Slings and Arrows
- Thick Lines (podcast)
- True North Country Comics (podcast)
- Trusty Henchman
- Uncivilized Territories (podcast)
- Women Write About Comics
- Xerography Debt
Selling original comic pages/ offering microgrants/ other:
- Athenaeum Comic Art
- Banff comics & graphic novel residency
- CAKE cupcake award
- City Artist Award – Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
- Comics Advocacy Group
- Conundrum Press Bursary
- First Graphic Novel award (UK)
- MICE mini-grant
- Ontario Arts Council
- Seattle Public Library Writing Room Residency
- The Walter Grant
Of Interest
Megan Kelso’s incredible public art “memory rail” is now installed at Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center! “Crow Commute” is an 85-foot long comic story of Seattle, etched in steel, and meant to be read from the center out.
Read about our local comic artists responding to the disaster of COVID-19 in this article in the Seattle Times. Featuring Amy Camber (below), Robyn Jordan, and Marie Bouassi.
In 2019, Short Run was awarded an art show at City Hall Galleries in the center of downtown. “Comix for All” presented 14 local artists whose multiple styles and subjects demonstrated the flexibility of the comix medium. The Seattle Review of Books said of this show, “Together, the works create a kind of anthology of the modern state of alternative cartooning, exploded out onto the halls of local government.”
In 2018, Short Run donated their collection of over 1,000 mini-comics and zines to The Vera Project, an incredible all-ages, volunteer-run art & music venue.
We also co-sponsored the national, group exhibition “Comix Body” at the Kittredge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound. The exhibit considers how bodies move through the world – as sensitive skin, as vulnerable meat, as human and as animal. More about the exhibition here.
Short Run was the signature sponsor of the 2017 Comics and Medicine Conference at The Seattle Public Library. For more info, check out the Graphic Medicine site.
In 2016, Short Run curated a print & zine fair for the opening night of the Seattle Art Museum’s Graphic Masters exhibit. More details here.