Rave HC (2022 Drawn and Quarterly) comic books
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Published May 2022 by Drawn & Quarterly.$19.00
$6.50
1st printing.
Story and art by Jessica Campbell.
It's the early 2000s. Lauren is fifteen, soft-spoken, and ashamed of her body. When her bible-thumping parents forbid Lauren to bring evolution textbooks home, she opts to study at her schoolmate Mariah's house. That evening Mariah gives Lauren a makeover and they have what becomes Lauren's first queer encounter.
Jessica Campbell uses frankness and dark humour to articulate Lauren's burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. Rave is a coming of age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them.
Hardcover, 168 pages, full color. Mature Readers
Cover price $22.95.