Rainy Day Recess:
The Complete Steven’s Comics

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From 1995 to 1998, David Kelly’s “Steven’s Comics” ran in LGBT and alternative newspapers around the country. This comic strip explored the world of a sensitive boy coming of age in the seventies, with all its joys, quirks, and heartbreaks. Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics collects the entire Xeric-Award-winning series in one volume suitable for young adult and adult readers, with additional material created specially for this collection.

The book also includes a foreword by advice columnist and It Gets Better Project founder Dan Savage; Northwest Press will be making a donation to the It Gets Better Project with every copy sold.

Created by David Kelly, with a foreword by It Gets Better founder Dan Savage.

120 pages. 10″x7″. Full-color cover with black-and-white interiors.

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PREVIEWS:

You can read a preview of Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics right here on the site.

REVIEWS:

Review on No Flying No Tights by Emma — “While the stories are all self contained, you do follow Steven’s life. And because of that, it leaves you wanting more. You see Stephen struggling to figure out who he is and also what is going on in his very dysfunctional family. And then, the comic stops. This is a short collection that leaves you wanting more.”

Review on Stumptown Trade Review — “Overall, Rainy Day Recess is a fun book that explores a quirky and confusing time in a boy’s life. In an entertaining and effective way it reassures the reader that they are not alone in the strange times that were growing up. And, for those readers who are gay and who are struggling with the confusion of it all, it offers the reassurance that things do get better.”

Review on Detroit News by Eric Henrickson — “Steven isn’t quite Everykid, but he’s a great kid. And I wish there were the comics to make a second volume because I didn’t want to leave his world. ”

Review on cxPulp by Andrea Speed — “I hope the explanatory blurb didn’t sound too depressing, because really this collection isn’t depressing at all. There’s something life affirming in thinking that Steven survived such a turbulent childhood so well. I couldn’t help but draw comparisons to Lynda Barry while reading this, which is a good thing.”

Review on OutSmart by Chip Babbin — “We have been enthusiastically welcomed into the charming world of Steven, a gay adolescent boy coming of age during the ’70s.”

Robert Kirby review on GoodReads — “Thrilled that David Kelly’s mid-90′s comic strip has finally been collected and bound in this long overdue book. Such a treat to revisit the charming, poignant tale of Steven, a sensitive young boy growing up in the 70′s who likes playing with dolls, has a crush on his best friend Christopher and prefers reading to sports (do I need to draw you a picture about where this is going?).”

Review on ICV2 by Snow Wildsmith — “Though Kelly’s Xeric grant winning work was originally aimed at gay readers, his story is universal enough to appeal to a wider audience, all of whom will be left wanting to see what he’s working on these days.”

Review on The Gay Comics List by François Peneaud — “Rainy Day Recess is a collection that will reward multiple readings, for its author’s attention to details, both in his characters and in their surroundings. It is as engaging as it is heartfelt, but more than that, it stands as a realistic but ultimately optimistic portrait of a gay kid. We can only believe that Steven grew up to be a good guy who made another man, or maybe other men, feel happy and loved.”

Review on Comics Should Be Good on CBR by Brian Cronin — “Kelly captures the ups and downs of Steven’s life beautifully. A simple, yet important, facet of this collection is the fact that while Steven goes through a whole pile of garbage for being who he is, he also has simple enjoyments the same way that pretty much every kid has simple enjoyments in life. So the balance between feeling sorry for Steven and feeling happy for his enjoyments is crucial to the power of Kelly’s work, and it makes for an excellent series of comics.”

Review on GayLeague.com by Joe Palmer — “That’s why I like Steven. I know he’s only a make believe kid in a book made up by somebody named David Kelly. He’s probably a big person too because adults don’t let kids make comics unless you draw it yourself. Steven makes me feel good because now I know it’s okay if a boy likes another boy!”

Review on Renderwrx by PD Houston — “Steven’s life isn’t all hardship, he’s not growing up in a family that’s super poor or he doesn’t have to tell with any serious tragedy on a day to day basis, but still the fact that you can’t be who you really are with the people you are closest to has to be about the hardest thing a person could do. Fortunately for us rather than dwelling sourly on the whole thing, David puts a lot of humor into his life story. It’s not the laugh out loud kind of humor, but the kind that keeps a smile on your face the entire time you read the book.”

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