Organized by Sarah Strunin
Co-Sponsored by SHORT RUN SEATTLE!

Join us for a comics and small press fair in the Film Forum lobby before the premiere of Bezango,Washington. Browse and buy work from the brilliant and twisted minds of some of Seattle’s finest contemporary comic artists and zinesters with tables curated by Short Run, Fantagraphics, Intruder Comics, Mend My Dress Press, Pity Party, and Cold Cube Press. With Videos by Joe Garber and ET Russian.

The fair will be followed by the world premiere of Bezango, Washington, a documentary that shines the spotlight on alternative comics in the Pacific Northwest, chronicling the amazing artwork and evolution of some of the region’s most prolific cartoonists. Featuring Frank M. Young, James Gill, Steve Willis, Ellen Forney, Jim Woodring, Gary Groth, Peter Bagge, Larry Reid, Bob Cram, David Horsey, Charles Burns, Pat Moriarity, Shary Flenniken, David Lasky, Roberta Gregory and more.

Tables curated by:

• SHORT RUN celebrates and strengthens Seattle’s lauded comix and arts community through readings, performances, art shows, hands on workshops, online resources and their annual curated festival which focuses on indie comix and self-published, small press, and handmade books of all kinds
• INTRUDER is a free, quarterly, co-op, comics newspaper that started in March of 2012 consisting of 16+ Seattle based, super skilled and darkly comedic cartoonists.
• MEND MY DRESS PRESS is a small publisher and zine distributor based out of Tacoma,
  Washington. Born out of grrrl love, Mend My Dress are purveyors of anthologies of zines, small art books, investigative social pieces and local authors.
• COLD CUBE PRESS is a local independent printing and publishing company. Printing exclusively on a Risograph, they are dedicated to making books that feature artists of all different mediums and backgrounds.
• FANTAGRAPHICS has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.
• PITY PARTY is an artist collective focusing on printed matter and various other handmade goods located in Seattle, WA.