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The panels follow the right to left/top to bottom rhythm, but they vary in size from 6 on a page, to a non-outlined full page scene. The novel is drawn in black and white and shades of grey. Skim’s characters is so rich and full of emotion both in the words she uses and the pictures of her. The Tamakis wrote and drew a beautiful graphic novel that really speaks to teen angst in this day and age. All she understands is that things need to change in her life. Skim is surprised by these feelings as she has never thought of herself as a lesbian. To make matters worse, she finds that she is attracted to her teacher. Following the suicide of a friend, Skim becomes depressed and starts to analyze her own life. She is a somewhat plump girl who practices Wicca and attends an all-girls school.

Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki collaborate brilliantly in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.High school is confusing enough for a girl, but it is even worse when you fall in love. What graphic novelist Jillian Tamaki does to break out of a creativity rutĭepression, love, sexual identity, crushes, manipulative peers - teen life in all its dramatic complexities is explored in this touching, pitch-perfect, literary graphic masterpiece.Archer abruptly leaves, Skim struggles to cope with her confusion and isolation, armed with her trusty journal and a desire to shed old friendships while cautiously approaching new ones. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's high school, and that's what happens to Skim when she starts to meet in secret with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each clique trying to find something to hold on to and something to believe in. Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. The great Canadian reading list: 150 books to read for Canada 150.