Skim

(W) Mariko Tamaki (A/CA) Jillian Tamaki. "Skim" is a would-be Wiccan goth who attends a private girls' school in Toronto. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend* who then kills himself because he was (maybe) gay* the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time for Skim to fall in love when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher* Ms. Archer. When Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school* Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation* as her best friend* Lisa* tries to pull her into "real" life by setting up a hilarious double-date for the school's semi formal. The whole gamut of teen life is explored in this softcover edition of the 2009 Eisner-nominated* Ignatz-winning literary graphic novel.