When was invented the expression “politically correct”, Bob Staake was already starting to design his irreverent NSFW covers of books, which have absolutely no idea what to do with that expression!

The sharp criticism of repression and respectability, typically bourgeois, is accentuated by the fact that the graphics are set between the ’40s and ’60s. Satire, cheeky humour and visual parody of the covers of children’s classics become his message of rebellion, the propaganda leaflet of an artist who plays with stereotypes and converts them into unsettling destabilizing mines.

Each cover is unique in its kind, almost disturbing, some images remind us a lot of the cover of Melvins‘ album Houdini, which could be a valid soundtrack while you scroll through the works by Bob Staake.

While dogs hunt for very particular bones, we discover that Bukowski can be an excellent reading of childhood education and still, that the only monkeys can deny the holocaust (with due respect to animals), after all: how to blame him?