Article: Getting on bored with the cult of Emily.

Byline: Kristi Turnquist

Dec. 13--Who is she? That's the question that has circled like a swarm of bats around the mysterious, black-haired head of Emily the Strange since she first started glowering out at us more than 10 years ago.

Created by Rob Reger, co-founder of the Oakland, Calif., clothing line Cosmic Debris Etc. Inc., Emily was a Goth sort of girl who originally appeared on T-shirts and promotional stickers. As the cult of Emily grew, more products and a series of Chronicle Books revealed that she's a 13-year-old with four black cats, an iconoclastic attitude ("Emily didn't search to belong. She searched to be lost" is a typical slogan) and a ...

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