See, Moth experienced her “first magic,” when she accidentally made her thoughts manifest, freaked out, and, upon returning home, learned from mother that she’s actually a magic-powered witch. Raised by a single mother above their second-hand shop in the small Massachusetts town of Founder’s Bluff, Moth always felt unusual and out-of-place, and on a particularly eventful Halloween Day, she lives out the common childhood fantasy of learning that she’s not who she always thought she was, but that she’s actually special and magical.

Moth Hush, Steinkellner’s protagonist, has a lot more to be uncertain about than the average junior high schooler. But “okay” certainly seems to be the sort of adjective a 13-year-old witch might assign herself, evoking as the word does a level of insecurity and uncertainty common in pre-teens. Frank Baum’s The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda The Good Witch, Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch, Hallmark Channel’s The Good Witch series-inspired the title of Emma Steinkellner’s debut graphic novel The Okay Witch or not.

I can’t be sure if our pop culture’s tendency to identify witches by their morality or quality-think L.

The okay witch by emma steinkellner