Katherine Farmar of The Irish Times wrote that Kim is "an unwilling outsider", "overweight, introspective, too cynical to fit in with the “normal” kids but not cynical enough to maintain a veneer of cool aloofness".Kimberly Keiko Cameron, aka "Skim": a Wiccan, Gothic, Japanese-Canadian schoolgirl.And if things cannot get more complicated, Skim starts to fall for an equally quirky teacher. With the school counsellors breathing down her neck and the popular clique (including Katie's best friend Julie Peters) forming a new club, Girls Celebrate Life (GCL), in its wake, Skim finds herself in the crosshairs, deepening her alienation. When popular girl Katie Matthews gets dumped by her athlete boyfriend, who days later kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. She is known as a Goth, and practices Wicca. Skim is a "not slim" sixteen-year-old Japanese-Canadian who is a student at an all-girls Catholic school. Set in 1993, in a Toronto Catholic girls high school, it is about an outsider girl called Skim. Skim is a Canadian graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Jillian Tamaki.
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