Sixteen year old Tamrika Fuller is happy with her life. With good friends and good grades, she’s content to keep her options open for her future. But when her parents reveal they’ve been saving for several years to send her to their Alma Mater for her final years of high school – an old-fashioned boarding academy miles from her home in Vancouver – she’s thrown out of her comfort zone. With no friends and a taciturn new room-mate, Tammy feels un-moored and deeply out of place. What’s more, her new school is heavily science-focused, with little to no thought for arts students. In an attempt to take control of her life and make something positive happen, Tammy starts an art club, while new relationships make her ask what it is she really wants out of life – and how to make it happen.
Author
Born and raised in South Africa (with a stint in the Seychelles), she moved to Canada in my teens, and on to the UK in twenties. Her migration-heavy background has had a big influence on her, and fostered a deep interest in hybridity and juxtaposition which influences her work. Her work tends towards gentle, contemplative stories grounded in real life, often with a magic realist twist. She approaches comics with a focus on a story's flow and pacing, appealing page design, and bold, organic lines.
