ShortBox Comics Fair

Coming at you soon 🔨💥

A visual elegy, @marcheriest's 'The Luminary Lark -Mirror' is set in 1962, where pinball has been successfully eradicated off the Mid-Atlantic coast in a bloody crusade. Only Margaret remains, a pinball engineer toiling away at her final masterpiece...

Late 1960s: singer Cleo Okra wakes up in a dark, cavernous basement, her beautiful voice gone. As Cleo tries to find a way out, she recalls the events that led to her capture, involving an eccentric music mogul and his ultimate creation. 'Wall of Sound' by Galileo Disperati!

'Catalog’s night accountant does his work in the silence of his office, counting and transcribing with care 0s, 1s, 2s and 3s into his ledger - wait, was that a 4?' 'FOUR' is a new comic by Pal Posak, debuting at the fair this October!

Asimina Hollingworth's 'Desert Orphan' delivers a taut and brittle tale of loneliness and limited options. Elroy lives in the desert. No mum, no dad. Just Kelda. Brian’s in the way; he’s always in the way. Elroy wishes he was gone. Coming to the fair this October!

my new comic 🌙Moon Junction🌙 available this october 👁️‍🗨️‼️

Cover & preview pages from @ufotomorrow's new comic, 'Moon Junction': Long time friends, eternal rivals... and a seemingly inescapable fate. The two Moons follow each other in the sky, as below the royal knights prepare once again to duel, to the delight of the Astrologer Queen.

From Smileyfaceorg, 'L'Archange et le Diable II' is a reimagination of the French Revolution, where its most prominent figure, Maximilien Robespierre, is unexpectedly transformed into the monstrous rumour told of him -- a vampire.

Coming to the fair this Oct, 'Insect Course,' a new comic from @_kohiu! Ugo, an increasingly bored florist in a dying department store, has recently become obsessed with breaking into a stranger’s house. What awaits ahead of him is a crawling, squirmy thing of a curse...

New from @maia_zeidan, a beautiful all-ages comic about a small fox living alone in the forest. Until, one day, something falls from the sky: A star... Wounded and dim, it needs his help. And what begins as a quiet act of care soon becomes a journey that will change everything.

A new @LauraKnetzger comic should be on everybody's radar: in 'A Little Beauty' a son must choose between destroying his mother's new-found joy, brought on by a spiralling obsession with some strange flowers, or saving her 'normal' life.

Welcoming @gaypupp to the fair! C.le.mieux is a queer comic artist and illustrator based in France. His colourful work zooms in on the tiny things that matters.

Coming this October, @riotbones 'War and the Maiden' sees War and a historian meet in a library at the end of the world, in a reckoning between memory and myth. As ruins smoulder beyond the walls, they trade stories, catalogues of atrocities, and unanswerable questions...

Really excited to begin previewing all the new comics that will be debuting at the fair this October! Between now and then, we'll share covers, pages, and brief synopsis of over 150+ original, new comics as created by our fantastic exhibiting artists from around the world!

Some spot illustrations from this year's exhibitor guide, by the wonderful @lissshooo

Welcoming @lordofnowhere_ to our 2025 lineup! Simone is a comic artist and illustrator living out in the Canadian rockies. They aim to make art with a sense of atmosphere and adventure, and are an all-time lover of fantasy nonsense.