Emily The Strange

Emily The Strange - Seeing Is Deceiving by Rob Reger.

The audience can interact with the character as she has different books each with a different tale. Emily the Strange has a incredible personality and very striking distinctive look. Her hair is long and black, her eyes dark and she is all dressed in black with big white shoes. There are always four black cats with her too.

There are art shows dedicated to Emily The Strange. As there is such a following of the character audiences can really interact with her.

Seeing Is Deceiving is the fourth book. I have chosen this as it jumped out at me inthe book shop. I noticed it straight away as it was a lot smaller than the other books and the plain red drew me in as did the stare of the girl on the front, Emily.

As I flicked through the book for the first time I noticed images used glossy shapes to enhance the ghostlyness. For example Emilys eyes at the beginning have images of herself in them with gloss varnish. This is also the same on the cats collars.

Emily is showing the world how she sees it and how deceptive sight can be. Parts of some pages are cut out to reveal the next page but still allowing it to be part of the previous page. My favorite example of this is on one page the image is Emilys face but the next page the image is actually spiders. It makes the reader look twice, touch the page, turn it over again, interact.