Something always rubbed me the wrong way about Emily, so I uniformly shunned her through the batcave and beyond. Feeling quite vindicated.

My dear friend, Vicente, alerted me of this…

Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character.
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, December 3, 2008.

For irony’s sake, here’s a paragraph from the Emily the Strange website:

“Designers including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino and Marc Jacobs have paid tribute to her, but she doesn’t care! Emily wants you to be yourself, think for yourself, and DO IT YOURSELF. There’s nothing more boring to her than copying everyone else. Emily is the link to the Stranger in us all.”

Hmph.