Plenty of us loves to read. Or say that we do. But finding the time to do so is, more often than not, much more difficult than we’d like. After a hard day at work or school, instead of snuggling up with a doggo, a steaming mug of hot cocoa, and a good novel, we usually end up being couch potatoes in front of the TV or computer screen.
Well, not to worry, because artist John Atkinson of ‘Wrong Hands’ has you covered. The illustrator created a series of cartoon drawings that will help any lover of the written word catch up on the writings they missed out on. Whether it’s classic literature or popular modern hits.
“I’ve always loved to draw even as a young child,” Atkinson told Bored Panda in an in-depth interview. “I studied Fine Art at University and after spectacularly failing as a famous artist, took up graphic design. The webcomics are a more recent endeavor.”
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If he sings “Hello, mah baby, hello, mah honey, hello, mah ragtime gaaaaal,“ she’s in business!
Princes get old. Frogs - you can't tell how old they are. And if he TALKS - Wow! Think of the income possibilities. Sorry, frog, I'll be "using" you.
The House of Usher allegedly fell. There should be nothing but rubble there.
I'll take a room at Hill House and when the voices start talking in the walls I'll run over to A Doll's House and have a little chat with Nora. Lord knows we'll both need it.
I think you need to add a section captioned not pictured here due to "zoning" issues and a pointer to the Westside with the the house on Mango Street and a pointer to the South with Uncle Tom's Cabin. And the a picture of a big gate: Beyond this point: Tara, part of a gated community.
Well, they are called "tragedies" for a reason!
Load More Replies...Yeah. And none of that would have happened if they'd bothered to talk to each other at some point.
Shakespeare before 1600 - everybody is happy, share laughs, have a drink. Shakespeare after 1600 - everybody is killed. Or commit a suicide. Or has strange accident.
“Cartooning is a great way to extract the silliness bottled up in my head,” the artist said during the interview. “Humor is subjective so it’s always interesting to read other people’s reactions to my work. I get a wide range of comments from “This is hilarious” to “You think you’re so clever, you’re not!” to “I don’t get it.”
Atkinson joked: “The last one is always my favorite. I usually like to respond “I don’t get it either.”
There is a complete misconception that belle has Stockholm syndrome SHE DOESN'T that is a different thing Belle didn't start falling for the beast until he treated her kindly and then didn't fall in love with him until she had departed. I don't really know how to explain this in written form. Maybe I am the only one that thinks this but I just had to say something! But the rest a pretty accurate and funny so kudos.
In the original he didn't treated her bad, he just Keep asking her if she can sleep whit him, she always said no, then she rerurn whit his dad, but the beast fall ill, she return to see his is very ill, and he ask her if they can sleep together and she repplies yes. Buuuuut he only want that, he falls asleep and in the morning he wakes up as a handsome prince. By the way, they're also cousins.
Load More Replies...From somewhere in the Great Con Suite in the Sky, Dr. Asimov is toasting you for that one!
I studied Hamlet for A level Eng Lit. Your version is much better
Bangor, Maine in particular, that place is Derry and Castle Rock.
Load More Replies...Carrie wasn't evil, she was superpowered. If people had been nicer to her, she would have used her powers for good.
These are the books i eant to get my hands on the most! Theyre so hard to find though!!
Bored Panda asked the illustrator to go into detail about what inspired him to draw cartoons about classic books. Here’s what he revealed: “I came across a survey a few years back that revealed about 60 percent of people pretend to have read books they haven’t and around 40 percent rely on movies and TV to feign knowledge of popular books.”
He continued: “I thought it might be a funny idea to help everyone out and provide “tweet-sized” synopses of these famous books suitable for dinner parties or when you’re cornered at a function. They’re not intended to replace reading the actual book and I’m quick to tell students not to use them as book reports unless they want a solid D- or an F.”
She will live forever in her novels. An original influencer.
Load More Replies...Yes Jane Eyre too. Jane initially didn't like Mr. Rochester at all and thought he was rude and direct, but then grew to love him later after learning more about him
Load More Replies...I love that you threw Jim Morrison in there. Especially since he's one of the Doors...and we are talking about doors...
Jim made the most sense. When you encounter a door, make sure there are walls attached. If not, just take either side on through. Miss you, Jim.
The other Obi-Wan Kenobi: "This is not the door you're looking for."
Atkinson explained that he’s still posting new cartoons to his blog two times per week. What’s more, he told Bored Panda about his upcoming plans. Next year, he hopes to have a follow-up book to his current one (“Abridged Classics: Brief summaries of books you were supposed to read but probably didn’t”). “The follow-up will most likely cover movies and television and is tentatively titled “Abridged Cinema.”
The artist had some good advice for cartoonists and artists: “Don’t take yourself too seriously and if you’re in it for the money—get out now!"
I'm a strong believer that if catcher in the rye was never band we would not be talking about it today.
I think J.D Salinger is the bees knees, and Catcher in the Rye was my introduction to him :) politely disagree
Load More Replies...Having read the original 1984 (dont bother with the movie its rubbish), that is a very good way to sum it up.
“Old ladies convince a guy to ruin Scotland“...oh my heavens. That sentence might be my next tattoo!
Minotaur: Species-queer semi-bovine inhabitant of overcomplex housing
Ghost: kinetically impaired, expelled, homesick driver of meat-covered skeletons
banshee: severely malnutritioned ex-opera singer plagued by loss trauma
Green is "War and Peace", the gluten one I think might be Born to Kill
Load More Replies...Takeuchi would have Strawberry Ramune, Tolkien would have Ale, and Arakawa would have Oolong.
Hunter Thompson would, of course, have a diverse cocktail of illegal drugs.
I'm gonna be that really annoying person and say that Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster
We need "that really annoying person" until they stop mixing it up.
Load More Replies...There once was a family named Stein There's a Gert and an Ep and an Ein Gert's poems are bunk Ep's statues are junk And no one can understand Ein.
Load More Replies...So is the Ulysses one, especially about that last part.
Load More Replies..."Everyone is sad. It snows." Me and my family every winter.
Well, games are an interactive medium. If there's no action, people complain. Although, I personally prefer when I can stop and use my brain to solve the given quest. That's why I love the RPG genre. However, even in RPG, more and more games are focusing more on battles and less on other characteristics, and go for more action and less thinking.
try Villagers and Heroes. great quests to solve and no PVP.
Load More Replies...I've never witnessed a book get changed into all four of these formats.
So true. But to their defense, a lot that works in books or movies simply doesn't in games.
And a lot that works in books, doesn't work in movies. They're simply different media
Load More Replies...I don't mean to spoil anything but that's true for all classical Russian literature.
Anna Karenina and War and Peace are light comedies compared with Ivan Ilyich.
And all those depressing literary works were part of our school program in junior high. I think I'm still traumatized.
I literally don't understand how that's funny, especially since Inferno is explicitly about Dante having a guided tour through Hell and not "stock phrase about Hell-things leaving Hell".
Load More Replies...For peace of mind, though rather boring, I'll go with Walden. Henry, will you please stay on your own side of the - er - bed!!
Didn't i read these summaries over ten years ago without the comic attached
Considering the entire book was inspired by frat-boy inebriation ie drunk university students wandering the back-streets of Oxford during their regular pub-crawl.... methinks that the whole "Regularland sucks", is the entire basis of the book's inspiration. (If ever you're in Oxford, I highly recommend the tour! Truly fascinating! <3 )
They weren't wandering. They were drinking, eating, and smoking at the Eagle and Child Pub. https://www.newsweek.com/men-letters-jrr-tolkien-and-cs-lewiss-bond-563509
Load More Replies...Tale of two cities: guy goes to guillotine with best self epitaph ever.
Well, he didn't have to rewrite his outlines. Something to be said for that.
The correct answer is "everyone", in case someone was wondering
Oh no! My bookshelves Plural are stuffed with books i have read and like so much i can re-read many times and find different things each time.
I can't "bare" to clean out my bookshelves. My Kindle is great for various reasons (looking up a word immediately instead of having to get out of my comfy bed and disturb the cat, how any books I've read and how long it took....). Before Kindle I'm a little ashamed to admit I kept a notebook of all the books I'd read. But there really is no substitute to the smell of a book and the feel of the pages...and turning the corner down to mark my page.
Load More Replies...*le gaspeth* yOu hAvE seEN thE mOViE bEfoRe reADinG tHe bOOk?!?!
If I know there is going to be a movie of the book, I usually stay away from both. Sometimes will read the book, either way you can get burned . Forest Gump the movie was awesome, the book was horrid and full of hick town red neck inbred mentally disabled southern stereotypes. Who do exist, else there wouldn't be stereotypes of them. Just not everyone in town. And please not the main character and hero of the book!
Load More Replies...I admit, there are a few books on my shelves that I haven't read. Those are far outnumbered by the ones I have read, which are outnumbered by the ones I've read multiple times.
Oh no! War and Peace is not on my bookshelves but I read it about fifty five years ago and then listened to a radio version in 1970 then a tv version with Anthony Hopkins as Pierre then the film with Audrey Hepburn as Natasha then a more recent tv version. If I owned a copy I would probably be reading it again.
My bookshelves: Classic. Classic. Classic in french. Classic with a bit of french. Enid Blighton. Classic. Then comes my collection of victorian gothic horror.
Not in my house, we have three tall bookcases filled with books that are read over and over again.
I've read all the chapter books in my house. It gets a bit annoying relying on libraries. they don't have the book or the books checked out or "we can't go to the public library today." but then sometimes at school a person actually takes weeks to read a book! And i'm rambling. Sry :)
i wonder what goes on at the Hendersons...?
Load More Replies...Technically speaking, pugs are miniature mastiffs, not hounds. Just sayin'...
My family was from Dartmoor too--maybe it was the Hound of the Battershells?
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: Everyone, including Santa shows extreme intolerance to one of their community.
Seriously though,y'all, ever since I was a very little girl & even now,"The Little Match Girl" is so heartbreakingly sad!😭
Ive seen the Key West bar Hemingway hung out in. I am not surprised he wrote stories like this.
Exactly, Elizabeth's younger sisters don't get married and the youngest Dashwood sister doesn't get married either. Only in Emma do everyone get married
Load More Replies...All the upvotes for anyone who can think of an actual Dickens character to whom all the above applies. Is there one?
Load More Replies...Mine is Conan the Bavarian -- though really, he's Austrian.
Load More Replies...To quote Spike Milligan, "He walked with a pronounced limp. L-I-M-P, pronounced limp."
I'm rather fond of the Odd Case of Dr. Freckle and Mr. Lied.
But but, the whale is a metaphor! (Said by every English teacher EVER)
Nothing ruins a great, terrible, so-so, etc. book than reading one for an English class. Gah!
Load More Replies...I tried to read the "lost" sequel to Mockingbird. Couldn't read much before I figured out that it had been written the week before. LOL
Yeah -- "prequel" my ***. It was a first draft that should have stayed in the box where Lee hid it.
Load More Replies..."Seven Hundred Characters Who Die (But some are still alive in the TV show)"
Actually the TV show killed off Characters that are still alive in the book, because there were too many story lines to keep track of, and the show continued past the books, so those that are presumed dead in the books, might not actually be dead.
Load More Replies...Whats the actual name about the "Arguments against Group Projects" book?
In literature classes, it's used as an example of using fewer words to get the same point across that you would by using many more words.
This one will be completely lost on the young'ns. Watch a few episodes somewhere on the intertubes.
Finally something that's not about how someone looks, cats or crazy brides! They are all really funny. Love it!
Glad you enjoyed it :) John is an amazing artist
Load More Replies...I'm a literature buff and I laughed or giggled at almost all of them. My favorites are the "writer's block" (pun of the century) and keeping the "bankrupcy".slot from "wheel of fortune" in the Dickens Misfortune wheel,
Finally something that's not about how someone looks, cats or crazy brides! They are all really funny. Love it!
Glad you enjoyed it :) John is an amazing artist
Load More Replies...I'm a literature buff and I laughed or giggled at almost all of them. My favorites are the "writer's block" (pun of the century) and keeping the "bankrupcy".slot from "wheel of fortune" in the Dickens Misfortune wheel,
