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Emily the Strange Graphic Novels #4
Emily's Seeing Is Deceiving
Emily's strange and sullen subculture of one continues to win the rebellious hearts and minds of millions of fans the world around. Now 13 years old, our defiant heroine has a major motion picture in the works, a quarterly comic book, and has made her mark on strange and best-selling merchandise from candy to couture, guitars to lip gloss. Despite her decidedly antisocial tendencies, Emily is more popular than ever. Her books and gift titles have collectively sold over half a million copies, and she is published in 5 languages. In this, her 4th book, Emily the Strange Seeing Is Deceiving , Emily challenges her dark devotees to see things her way. The same engaging format features fantastic production quality with ghostly spot varnish tricks plus eye-popping die-cuts. A brand new gift line will publish simultaneously, including some amazing new materials, such as vinyl and stitching. Fans, new and old, won't believe their eyes when they get a closer look at Emily's optical delusions.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published August 24, 2006
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About the author
Rob Reger
56 books383 followersReger's friend Nathan Carrico designed Emily in 1991 for a skateboard company in Santa Cruz, where Cosmic Debris was born. In his Santa Cruz garage (and later an artist warehouse in San Francisco) Reger created the designs, and with Matt Reed brought them into the fashion world by creating t-shirt designs that captured the essence of this mysterious young girl with 4 black cats. Since then, Cosmic Debris has grown into a multi-million dollar firm with dozens of employees.
Cosmic Debris has most recently moved its operations to Berkeley, California, and plans to open an Emily retail store there soon. With the momentum of mainstream success, several comics about Emily have also been made. Key creative people over the years (designers, graphic artists, illustrators), who have worked with Reger's Cosmic Debris design house are Buzz Parker, Brian Brooks, Grace Fontaine, Liz Baca, Noel Tolentino, Fawn Gehweiler, Jessica Gruner, Adele Pedersen and Nicomi "Nix" Turner. Rob Reger remains the key creative force behind the brand, and Buzz Parker is the key illustrator for the comic books and website.
Cosmic Debris has most recently moved its operations to Berkeley, California, and plans to open an Emily retail store there soon. With the momentum of mainstream success, several comics about Emily have also been made. Key creative people over the years (designers, graphic artists, illustrators), who have worked with Reger's Cosmic Debris design house are Buzz Parker, Brian Brooks, Grace Fontaine, Liz Baca, Noel Tolentino, Fawn Gehweiler, Jessica Gruner, Adele Pedersen and Nicomi "Nix" Turner. Rob Reger remains the key creative force behind the brand, and Buzz Parker is the key illustrator for the comic books and website.
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January 30, 2015
Not much different from the other supposed graphic novel. Hope the books are better.
July 26, 2025
objects in mirror are stranger than they appear...
December 3, 2018
More art than pictures.
Very little words.
This one amps up the surrealism in a few of the images, especially with the cutout pages.
Again my favorite part was finding the hidden glossy messages.
It definitely feels like this should be for kids as it's so simple and quick to read through. But the main character of the original book series is a tween [I believe] so it makes sense that they would market these books to the same audience. I can't say it really works; because even though these graphic novels [of a sort] do give an insight into how Emily's mind might work, her imagination, her dreams, it's a little abstract, and tweens might blow these books off cause on the first read through it will look childish to them [which means they probably won't read it again].
Very little words.
This one amps up the surrealism in a few of the images, especially with the cutout pages.
Again my favorite part was finding the hidden glossy messages.
It definitely feels like this should be for kids as it's so simple and quick to read through. But the main character of the original book series is a tween [I believe] so it makes sense that they would market these books to the same audience. I can't say it really works; because even though these graphic novels [of a sort] do give an insight into how Emily's mind might work, her imagination, her dreams, it's a little abstract, and tweens might blow these books off cause on the first read through it will look childish to them [which means they probably won't read it again].
November 19, 2015
im confused the comic books are for teens, tween, but this was for like a 5-6 years old and then the're novels that are for teens. this is all over the place and you never know what you will get. so far I have yet to read a real story, one that is done well would be really good and tell me who she is, and why she does what she does.
November 5, 2010
Emily Strange is Olivia the pig grown up into a goth teen girl. It's perfect for those girls that like Toki Doki and Happy Bunny books.
July 2, 2011
What is this kind of book anyway?
There's nothing more than a few words on each page, and must of them include strange pictures.
There's nothing more than a few words on each page, and must of them include strange pictures.
November 4, 2012
Not really sure I understand... Reminds me of the old jazz bars where people recite poetry and snap their fingers instead of clap....
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