****COVID-19 Resources for Artists in WA***
Click the link above for funding sources, workshops, updates, etc.
Places to Buy/Sell Comics & Zines (Seattle)
- Arcane Comics
- Elliott Bay Book Company
- Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
- Left Bank Books
- Outsider Comics & Geek Boutique
- Phoenix Comics
- Push/Pull
Print Shops & Other Services (Seattle and Online)
- Buttonmakers.net (Buttons, buttonmakers, & parts)
- Cold Cube Press (Risograph printing)
- Color One Photo (Giclee and photo prints)
- Enviro-tote (Tote bags)
- Fogland Studios (Screen printing & workshops)
- Girlie Press (Offset printing & more)
- Grapheme (Letterpress printing & workshops)
- Misty Mountain Mfg. (sewn canvas goods: totes, masks)
- Pacific Publishing (Newsprint printing)
- Paper Press Punch (Risograph printing & workshops)
- Phil’s Custom Bindery (Book binding services)
- Saigon Printing (Digital printing)
Professional Services for Artists (Seattle)
Krish Raghav screen printing at Fogland Studios
Annual Zine & Comic Events Statewide
- Destiny City Comics & Arts Festival (Tacoma)
- Emerald City Comic-con (Seattle)
- Geek Girl Con (Seattle)
- Jet City Comic Show (Tacoma)
- Lit Crawl (Seattle)
- Olympia Comics Fest (Olympia)
- Olympia Zine Fest (Olympia)
- Seattle Children’s Book Festival (Seattle)
- Spokane Zine Fest (Spokane)
Comics & Zine commentary and reviews
- Broken Frontier
- Broken Pencil
- Cool Yeah Alright
- Comics Bookcase
- Comics for Grownups (podcast)
- Comics Grinder
- Comics Kayfabe! (youtube)
- The Comics Journal
- The Comics Reporter (archive)
- Comixage
- Comix Claptrap (youtube)
- Drawing a Dialogue (podcast)
- Foggy At Best
- For the love of Indie (podcast)
- The Graphic Novel Podcast
- Gutter Boys (podcast)
- High Low Comics
- Inkstuds (podcast)
- Maximum Rocknroll
- New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium (youtube)
- Noah Van Sciver Cartoonist Talks (youtube)
- Optical Sloth
- Panel Patter
- The Panelist
- Process Party (podcast)
- Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse
- The Seattle Review of Books
- Sequential State
- The Slings and Arrows
- True North Country Comics (podcast)
- Xerography Debt
Of Interest
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.