{"id":23164,"date":"2014-12-02T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=23164"},"modified":"2014-12-02T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:42:51","slug":"various-seattle-artists-short-run-on-your-marks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=23164","title":{"rendered":"Various Seattle Artists – Short Run: On Your Marks #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is it too late for me to move to Seattle? Because the idea of a local community group like Short Run that “celebrates and strengthens” the local small press community sounds really fantastic to me. Oh right, you’re here to read about a comic, not join me on my mid-life crisis. This one is an anthology featuring six local artists, or at least I’m assuming they’re local because they’re all in this Seattle anthology. I also wish that the stories had titles, mostly for one story in particular, but I’ll leave you guessing as to which one I’m talking about. Stories in here include a piece by Drew Miller about a lonely survivor who is surrounded by people who won’t come out of their shells (literally), Yumi Sakugawa’s take on the dream of smashing all electronics and riding off into the sunset, Jaime Coe’s frankly adorable tale of Hercules playing with a puppy Cerberus, and Scott Longo’s piece on one particular part of the disappearing water supply. I also enjoyed Suzette Smith’s piece on the possibly irrational fear of black men as a couple gets off the bus, but one panel is mostly blurred out. If this is a printing error it’s in a very unfortunate place, if it’s intentional then it’s a pretty damned smart place to show why the conversation about getting a gun can fall apart in a conversation with a couple. I also didn’t get the piece by Anna Saimalaa, but I’m guessing that’s more my fault than the fault of the artist. $7 might seem a little steep for this, but come on now, that’s still 6 stories for $7. And they use blue!<\/p>\n

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