Her ethnic background is relevant to two scenes in the comic, including an incident at Julie Peters' birthday party where Kim and another girl are kicked out of the party.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. Though she's fully capable of writing action, humor, and romance, most of her stories focus on exploring the characters' motivations and rationale.Skim is a Canadian graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Jillian Tamaki. In 2021, Tamaki, Dan Mora, and Jordie Bellaire became the new creative team for the DC Infinite Frontier relaunch of Detective Comics, after having done Future State: Dark Detective. In 2020, she won the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens for Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me and the Eisner Award for Best Writer for Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, and Archie. In 2014, they collaborated again to publish This One Summer. Skim won the Ignatz Award, a Joe Shuster Award and a Doug Wright Award in 2009. In 2008, she published her first graphic novel, Skim, along with her cousin Jillian Tamaki. Tamaki was born in Toronto, Ontario, and has Japanese Canadian and Jewish Canadian heritage. Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian performance artist and writer.

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