In one of the most eye-gougingly terrible ideas I have seen for at least a week, US book-seller decided it would be a good idea to celebrate "diversity" in books, by race-swapping the covers of existing classic novels. All of which are by, yeah you guessed it, white people.
Yes, really.
Here's "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, with its new "diverse edition" cover:
And a few more:
Hahahahahahaha!
Unsurprisingly, the announcement was not altogether well received and it has been hurriedly shelved (I thankyew), but not before TBWA (obviously an ad agency was involved, because of course it was) tried to explain their reasoning, and how it was inspired by casting a black actress as Hermione in a stage version of Harry Potter & The Cloak of Mediocrity:
"We just had a long conversation about how a lot of assumptions are made when books are made into films or books or even packaged and illustrated book covers, but really the power of reading is, you can imagine whatever you want beyond the words on the page.”
I do think Moby Suck My Dick has potential, though
Yes, really.
Here's "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, with its new "diverse edition" cover:
And a few more:
Hahahahahahaha!
Unsurprisingly, the announcement was not altogether well received and it has been hurriedly shelved (I thankyew), but not before TBWA (obviously an ad agency was involved, because of course it was) tried to explain their reasoning, and how it was inspired by casting a black actress as Hermione in a stage version of Harry Potter & The Cloak of Mediocrity:
"We just had a long conversation about how a lot of assumptions are made when books are made into films or books or even packaged and illustrated book covers, but really the power of reading is, you can imagine whatever you want beyond the words on the page.”
I do think Moby Suck My Dick has potential, though
