Spring 2008, Groundwood Books.
144 pages, hardcover
Ages 14 and up
978-0-88899-753-1
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*SKIM FAN ART GALLERY!
"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth
who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie Matthews 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 to fall
in love, but that's what happens to Skim 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. Her
best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into "real" life by setting
up a hilarious double-date for the school's semi formal, and Skim finds an
unexpected ally in Katie.
2008 Ignatz
Award for Best Graphic Novel
2008 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books List
2009 Doug Wright Award Winner, Best Book
2009 Eisner
award nominee (Best Publication for Teens, Writer, New Graphic Album,
Penciller/Inker)
2008 Best of Books of the Year, Publishers
Weekly, Quill
& Quire
SKIM
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on Facebook
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at Amazon
PRESS:
New
York Times Review
Paul
Gravett Review
Kliatt
Review
Toronto
Star
Cooperative
Children's Book Center review
Center for
Children's Books review
Metro
Review
Danforth
Review Review
National
Post feature
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SKIM in FFWD Calgary
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Globe
& Mail Review
Vue
Weekly Review
Small
BUST review
Small
review at Halifax's The Coast weekly
Skim mini-review
on Slate
Rabble.ca
Review
Feature
in Toronto's Xtra!
Review
from the Manitoba Library Association
Skim
in the Calgary Herald
Interview
and profile at Publishers Weekly
Quill
& Quire Starred Review
Mini-review
at Publishers Weekly
Audio/Podcast
Review at Friends of Lulu
Irish
Times Review
Canadian
Literature Review
Oct 2006. Published by Conundrum Press.
Gilded Lilies collects my recent comics, illustrations, drawings,
paintings, silkscreens, and sketchbook work. The book will include City
of Champions, a bemused tribute to the town of Edmonton, Alberta, and
a previously unpublished 76-page comic called The Tapemines, in which
two children of unfortunate circumstance doggedly pursue an escape to nature.
Download some samples (pdf).
Buy
Gilded Lilies online, or check your local comics shop. Retailers: this
book is currently available through Diamond.
Oct
2008. Self-published mini-comic.
24-page B&W photo-copied mini.
This little book includes some comics and drawings from my sketchblog,
plus some new material. Produced for SPX 2008.