Do you think the Hot Gothic kids will care?
Chris | December 4, 2008 | 1:05 pmWednesday, December 10 – Follow-up:
DocPop has a piece on this up as well as a more detailed post over at Laughing Squid.
From You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice:
Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character
The page on the left is from a 1978 book called Nate the Great Goes Undercover, by Marc Simont.
The poster of Emily the Strange on the right is from 1991.
WOAH. BACK UP. SERIOUSLY? Yes. The top image is a page from Nate the Great Goes Undercover, complete with text. This book was published in 1978. The bottom image is one of the first images of Emily the Strange ever made publicly available–it was sold, WITH THAT TEXT INCLUDED, as a bumper sticker.
What’s the saying? Oh yeah: Talent borrows, Genius Steals.
that is painfully blatant!