(s)kim

I ... am sort of at a loss for words on reflecting on this graphic novel.

I'm not really a huge fan of graphic novels in the first place... They've never really been my style. Not to say I hate comics by any means (I regularly read FoxTrot and Zits, and Calvin & Hobbes were wonderful while growing up. I also know entirely too much about DC and Marvel comics, courtesy of an older brother.)

I felt that Skim was kind of Zits meets The Bell Jar. Teenage angst and suicide.

The art was great, and very deliberately done. A lot of it is very dark, which parallels Skim's attitudes and thoughts. It's very unique that it's a graphic novel in a diary format, especially since Skim is so into art. It sort of acts as a way to not only read what she experiences, but also to show what she experiences through drawings.

I think... It ended appropriately. I didn't really care for it, but it worked with the way the novel had read.