With all the recent scrutiny over the Caucasian-ized covers of Magic Under Glass (which Bloomsbury has announced it will rejacket) and The Mysterious Benedict Society, I thought I might humbly offer my services for jacket overhauls. I like to call them Cover Covers. Click here to read my first Cover Covers post and learn the rules I abide by for these redesigns (basically, I have to take the images that randomly come up on a search and I only get 5 minutes to create the new cover). Let’s get started…
Side by side with the original:
(Source Image: ‘amazingglasscircle‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/58117789@N00/131681040)
This one didn’t turn out too bad. Maybe not the most eye-catching, but a worthy effort. Let’s just focus on the glass, okay?
Side by side with the original:
(Source Image: ‘Foggy Forest‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035603401@N01/210480)
Hmm. Not very good. This redesign makes it seem like a creepy forest story. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of the Benedict brouhaha.
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January 22, 2010 at 1:00 am
aquafortis
Your Magic Under Glass cover cover looks pretty dang good to me–love that image. I guess it doesn’t exactly scream YA, but I like it. :)
January 22, 2010 at 8:28 am
Angie
OK. Maybe I am a dummy but I was curious about the Benedict Society cover brouhaha. We have that book in our library.
But I tried a couple Google searches and didn’t come up with anything but your blog post.
What’s the deal?
Thanks!
January 22, 2010 at 8:39 am
Scope Notes
Similar to the Magic Under Glass cover, a character in the book (“Sticky” Washington) is described as having dark skin, yet is shown on the cover as white. It didn’t just happen on one cover, but on all three in the Benedict Society series.