John Warner writes: 'The blob is the term used to describe a current trend in book cover design. Having been exposed to the blob many times before, readers are primed to recognize what the blob is signifying.”
"Untamed" by Glennon Doyle, “Detransition, Baby” by Torrey Peters and"Such a Fun Age" by Kiley Reid.Sure, you’d see the blob here and there, but you didn’t think much of it. At the time, you didn’t even know it had a name. As long as the blob kept to its own business, you were happy to let the blob do its thing.
Looking at the lists of selected books for Reese’s Book Club and Read with Jenna, at least a third or more of the covers are blob or obviously blob influenced. It is one thing for the blob to be a dominant style in newly published books, but I was prompted to air my concerns about the blob when I recently went looking online for the publication year of Geraldine Brooks’ gem of a novel, “March,” and saw that the cover had been retroactively blobbed.
As Hawley notes, there’s nothing inherently bad about book covers that utilize the blob, and in fact, some of them are very clever in their combining shapes and color to create imagery that isn’t apparent at first glance. Charmaine Wilkerson’s “Black Cake” where the face of a woman is hidden among the blob is one example.
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