The style also makes it very quick read since there’s no forced end/chapter breaks to the story, the reader just flows from one page to the next. The format is very appealing because every page has some little doodle or large picture, so it breaks up the overall text, which is written more like a journal or diary than actual chapters in a book. Emily also loves her lists and they’re always 13 items long. This young adult novel is written in a journal style with many doodles, notations, and drawn Polaroid pictures as if they were taped in. The lost days by Rob Reger and Jessica Gruner is illustrated by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker. Emily is unique and revels in it, not caring what anyone else thinks about her. However, she’s anything but one-dimensional as she is a musician, scientist, and artist in addition to being a troublemaker with her slingshot always at the ready. She loves the creepy and spooky, priding herself in being strange.

She searched to be lost.”, and her take on an American war recruitment meme “I WANT YOU…to leave me alone”. She’s expanded her empire since the early internet store days with classic t-shirts such as “Your silence is golden” with Emily plugging her ears, “Emily didn’t search to belong. Supposedly there’s even a (stalled?) animated movie in the works. Originally featured on stickers, posters, and t-shirts, Emily now has graphic novels, comic books, YA novels, and apparently video games about her. She dresses in all black, has long black hair, and an attitude to match. For a sassy, dark humored teen, what’s not to love?Įmily the Strange is a 13-year-old punk rock loner who loves her 4 black cats. My favorite was a long sleeve black shirt that had a picture of Emily the Strange in her laboratory poking at a brain in a jar with one of her cats looking on nearby, with a caption like “Emily loves to pick your brain”. Full disclosure: in high school I loved Emily the Strange and had one or two (or eight) of her t-shirts.

The Lost Days by Rob Reger