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78 Literary Pun Cartoons

Love books but don't have the time to read? Why not just look at a cartoon loosely based on a book instead!

In this comparison cartoon, we see Moby Nice, a white whale apologizing to Ahab and inviting him to his Presidents' Day party, versus Moby Dick, who is just being mean to Captain Ahab.
No, I didn’t read the book. Why do you ask?

Tags: literature, this or that

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In this pun on Edgar Allan Poe and podiatrists, we see poe as a podiatrist, checking out a patient's food. He gives his prognosis: Tis a bunion. Only this, and nothing more.
"We take all kinds of insurance, this is our office assurance/ This visit, it will be covered, whether feet are broke or sore."/ Slowly I retrieved my card and stared out to the door ajarred/ A raven came and for my card to run he kindly did implore/ Soon he returned, a saddened look that differed from when he implored/ Quoth the Raven, "We don't accept Oxford."

Tags: literature

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In this play on Gabriel Garcia Marquez' book "Love in the Time of Cholera," we see four other book recommendations (if you like this, you'll love...): Love in the Time of Collars, ...time of Caller ID, ...the time of Collard Greens, ... of College Board.
All of these sound like books I would read.

Tags: literature

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In this play on the book/movie Gone with the Wind, we see "Gong with the Wind," a person standing at the ready to hit a gong once the breeze starts going. Yes, I do realize how asinine this is.
I would watch a 3 hour 42 minute movie about this.

Tags: literature, film, music

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In this pun on the Truman Capote book title, "In Cold Blood," we see a person sitting in what looks like a hot tub, but it is filled with, you guessed it, cold blood. She does not seem happy with the situation.
Why, no, I haven’t read any Truman Capote. Why do you ask?

Tags: literature

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In a pun on banned books, we see BAND books, classic titles mashed up with bands: Little Arcade Fires Everywhere, Sword in the Rolling Stones, Portrait of a Barenaked Lady, Grateful Dead Gatsby, A Goo Goo Doll's House, Picture of Dorian Greenday
So glad state governments are finally promoting these!

Tags: literature, music

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In these literary cat puns, we see Cat-22 (Catch-22), The Sound and the Furry (Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury), Mewlysses (Joyce's Ulysses), How to Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Pawter and the Goblet of Milk (Harry Potter), & the Great Catsby (Gatsby).
Happy summer reading, all you cool cats and kittens!

Tags: literature, cat

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In this pun on censored books, we see books that have (sort of) bad words in the title with that word blocked out - Ivanhoe, Moby Dick, Winnie-the-Pooh, Through the Looking Glass, Middlesex, and Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs.
Not pictured: Naked Lunch, The Screwtape Letters, The Hardy Boys, Puss in Boots, and James and the Giant Peach

Tags: literature

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In this pun on posthumous publication, we see Emily Dickinson sitting at her publisher's desk. Her publisher is a possum, which is why she is being published possumously.
Even if it's a book deal offered by a possum, it's still a book deal!

Tags: literature, animals

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In this play on fantasy football, we see several genres of football: Fantasy (an elf with a football fairy), Sci Fi (an astronaut being attacked by U.F.Footballs), Mystery (a detective inspecting a chalk outline of a ball), and Romance.
What is your favorite genre of football?

Tags: literature, sports

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