(Another thing, I discovered the Yeah Yeah Yeahs through Emily the Strange!)Ĥ.5 stars. And Emily helped me with that! Anyways, Emily the Strange is awesome sauce, and this book is amazing. (Well, I don't have a pack of mischief causing cats, but I have a mischief causing bunny!) I had started wearing a lot of black in sixth grade, and got sick of wearing pink, and wearing matching crap, so I just wore a lot of black, which caused people to start calling me goth, which ANNOYED me so much, but I didn't really care if they thought I was strange or anything. I loved how she rocks out on guitar, and has a posse of pet cats, and wears black, just like me. I started reading these, and they cheered me up. Last year was tough because it felt like the whole class was just stupid, (well, it wasn't just that it felt like it, some of them were really stupid and annoying), but I had to deal with it anyways, and just suck it up for the whole year. I found out about Emily the strange when I heard about Chloe Moretz playing her, because I had seen Kick-ass and I thought that she was awesome and hit girl was awesome. I love Emily the Strange, and I am most definitely going to dress up as her for Halloween next year, because I will be thirteen and everything! But anyways, Emily has taught me a lot, and has helped me so much with finding my 'inner-strangeness'. Rob Reger remains the key creative force behind the brand, and Buzz Parker is the key illustrator for the comic books and website. 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. With the momentum of mainstream success, several comics about Emily have also been made.

Since then, Cosmic Debris has grown into a multi-million dollar firm with dozens of employees.Ĭosmic Debris has most recently moved its operations to Berkeley, California, and plans to open an Emily retail store there soon. 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. Reger's friend Nathan Carrico designed Emily in 1991 for a skateboard company in Santa Cruz, where Cosmic Debris was born.

Piece of Mind by Rob Reger