In 2011, Kelly Froh and her co-founders decided Seattle was ripe for a celebration of the local underground comics scene. They set about creating the Short Run Comix Festival , a yearly celebration of underground, alternative, and DIY comic art.
Short Run allows creators to cut out the middlemen and present their work directly to the public. It welcomes artists from underrepresented backgrounds whose works deal in anything from identity, dream logic, mutants, to quotidian comedy, and everything in between.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the 12th iteration will be held at Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion. For no entrance fee, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., curious patrons will be able to peruse the works of the artists, while the creators themselves will host their own tables of self-published comics and associated art…