200+ Indie Comic Artists Fill a Georgetown Atrium
Free admission to 200+ indie comic artists and small presses, plus hands-on zine making, screen printing, and letterpress in a Georgetown atrium.
🗞️ The Fair Itself
🖨️ Buying Straight From the Artists
Exhibitors fill the atrium from the doors to the back wall with risograph zines, hand-bound comics, screen prints, and short-run books that rarely reach a store shelf. 200+ small-press artists and publishers arrive from 27 states and five countries, so most purchases go straight back to the people who made the work. Community tables from Seattle Public Library and Shout Your Abortion sit between the aisles. Bring a tote; flat prints travel better in a portfolio.
✂️ Zines, Screen Printing, Letterpress
On the second-floor balcony, the Youth Zone runs hands-on stations all day: comics and zine making, letterpress printing, and screen printing, open to all ages. Strange Library sets out almost 2,000 manga titles to read onsite, and Seattle Artist League next door holds an open house from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. El Pirata parks a food truck out front.
🎙️ Long Talks, Doors, and Getting Here
The fair runs 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, admission is free, and swag bags go to the first 50 through the entrance, first come, first served. Three Long Talk presentations run across the street at the Friends' Workshop, 5700 6th Ave S #110: James Sturm on the Applied Cartooning Lab at 1:00 PM, Robin McConnell on Canadian underground comics at 2:30 PM, and Julie Seigel of the Library of Congress at 4:00 PM. Ride Link to SODO, then Metro 131 or 132 to 4th Ave S and Mead St, the back of the building, where signs point to the Bespoke Lighting entrance. Fantagraphics is open 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM on Saturdays. Two free events follow: Night Two there from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, and Pencil Test at Jules Maes from 8:00 to 9:00 PM, 21 and over.
