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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!

A computer guy reads the Stephen King novel "IT." It is clear he thought it was called I.T. from Information Technology, and not in fact, a spooky book about a clown named Pennywise.
Nothing is scarier than having to ask people if they tried rebooting their computers.

Tags: literature, computer

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In this pun on J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, we see three baseball players (a catcher, a pitcher, and a third baseman) standing in three different types of bagel (rye, everything, and cinnamon raisin).
The only books I care about are about baseball players in bagels, and if you disagree, you're probably a phony.

Tags: literature, sports, bagel

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In this pun on Chick Lit, we see 6 classics of literature rewritten with chicken puns - Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men),Heminway's Old Man and the Sea, Melville's Moby Dick, Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, & Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Celebrating 700 cartoons the only way I know how... with #asininechickenpuns

Tags: literature, animals, chicken

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In this pun on the fairy tale Puss in Boots, an octopus wears eight different boots.
My favorite fairy tale!

Tags: literature

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In this pun on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge meets the ghost of Christmas Present, which is just the ghost of a Christmas present.
Christmas is over, so it's the perfect time for a Christmas cartoon!

Tags: literature, christmas

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In this pun on George Orwell's dystopian novel Animal Farm, we see several animals line up at a pharmacy while the cat pharmacist tells them, "I'm sorry, your insurance doesn't cover that."
A frightening dystopian tale

Tags: literature, animals, pig, political, cat, chicken, health

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In this pun on Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide, we see Dr. Jekyll, an upstanding scientist, and Mr. Hide-and-Seek, a guy hiding behind a dresser, playing hide and seek.
A chilling tale about a scientist who is very bad at playing children's games.

Tags: literature

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In this pun on the phrase "Muad'Dib" (which arguably means messiah in Frank Herbert's Dune), we see Paul Atreides, the muad'dib, next to a cow, who is the Moo- a-dib.
Obviously his mother would be names Lady Bessy-ca

Tags: literature, this or that, cow

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In this pun on fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, we see Jack and the Beanstalker. Jack sits on a bench reading a book "So... you think a legume is following you" as a kidney bean who is clearly stalking him watches through binoculars.
I personally don’t mind it when kidney beans become obsessed with me.

Tags: literature

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In this pun on the Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo, we see the count of Monte Cristos - a deli guy counting out five plates of monte cristo sandwiches.
A thrilling tale of hope, justice, vengeance, and clogged arteries

Tags: literature, food

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