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Jonathan Plackett is a creative technologist, advertiser copywriter and art director who has 10 years worth of experience at single-handedly engaging mass audiences in the millions with his creative websites and apps. He has worked for 14 years as a senior creative advertiser on brands such as Orange, Tesco, Nike, Honda and Innocent. He single-handedly created Face Juggler, the world's first automatic face swap iPhone app, which was downloaded 5 million times. In 2010 he made the website 'Slap Nick Griffin' which registered over 25 million slaps in 4 days. It was followed by 'Slapometer' which allowed voters to register their disdain for the general election candidates by slapping their least favourite. The candidates received 91 million slaps and the site was praised by The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Telegraph, Channel 4 and ITN. He created the 'Draw and Fold Over' website for The Campaign for Drawing, which allowed friends to play 'exquisite corpse' together online. Over 400,000 visitors have played. Karrie Fransman writes and draws visual stories and comics that have been published in The Guardian, The Times, The BBC, Time Out, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Young Vic, Psychologies Magazine, The Arts Council and The Goethe Institute. She published two graphic novels with Penguin Random House, 'The House That Groaned', and the award winning 'Death of the Artist'. She developed an award winning comic about a teenage refugee, for The British Red Cross, created a 2 storey installation for Southbank Centre and was commissioned to make a 'Selves Portrait' for an exhibition with Manchester Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. You can see more of her work at karriefransman.com
I only intended to look at it . . . but I'm completely drawn in. I love it. The language is fantastic. The gender swaps I hope will undo all my unconscious bias and I'll find my inner power! Fabulous. -- Philippa Perry Startling and refreshing, thought-provoking and unique, this book will stay with me. Its genius is that it feels like a timeless classic - beautifully illustrated, a joy to share - even as it shakes the gender stereotypes in our most beloved stories by their roots. -- Jess Kidd We were both fed a strict diet of fairytales as children so we were instantly captivated by Karrie and Jonathan's impressive reimaging of these age old tales. We were shocked that the simple premise of gender swapping the characters completely changed the way we connected to the stories. What would it have been like for Dev to grow up in a world where he was being read stories about vulnerable men who are praised for their emotional intelligence rather than their physical strength. Or for Tilda to have grown up play-acting the brave hero rather than the damsel in distress. If we are going to change the world we live in we need to inspire the next generation of changemakers to dream bigger. We believe this book is a part of this change. -- Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Dev Patel I will share this book with my own family and take into school soon, but for now I am still reading, re-reading and poring over the illustrations for my own reading enjoyment. It is an incredible book and would make the best Christmas gift for young and old! -- MyShelvesAreFull It's one thing to know that misogynistic stereotypes exist, another to peer into the machine that creates them . . . The illustrations also back up the aim of the book by disrupting stereotypes . . . an important reminder that the way we tell stories matters. -- Independent
