Wrong Hands

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31 Responses

1. on March 18, 2016 at 8:49 am | Reply franhunne4u

   Liked the Dante!

   
   
2. on March 18, 2016 at 9:19 am | Reply cordeliasmom2012

   You have a winner with that last one! Sounds like my life these days.

   
   
3. on March 18, 2016 at 9:59 am | Reply sshafarzek

   Speaking as a former English teacher … wonderful!

   
   
4. on March 18, 2016 at 10:30 am | Reply susielindau

   Ha! Classics in ten words or under. I’ll hire you to write my synopsis!

   
   
5. on March 18, 2016 at 12:07 pm | Reply humanitysdarkerside

   Your cartoons are some of the best I have ever read.

   
   
   • on March 18, 2016 at 12:22 pm | Reply Wrong Hands

     Thanks!

     
     
6. on March 18, 2016 at 3:10 pm | Reply Vidu

   Based on these , I only want to read Dante’s inferno!! Awesome work!!

   
   
7. on March 18, 2016 at 3:26 pm | Reply Lisa Nabieszko

   Love this one, John ❤

   
   
   • on March 18, 2016 at 4:51 pm | Reply Wrong Hands

     Thanks Lisa!

     
     
8. on March 18, 2016 at 3:48 pm | Reply M. M.

   :- ))))))

   but to pick some nits:

   > kills everyone

   kills *almost* everyone–the dog and the wife get to live. but there’s no room for “almost”, so I won’t complain

   > Murderer feels bad
   actually he feels, say, quizzy. a little sad, but proud, too. passive-aggressive hither-thither, he can’t quite tell. but of course I won’t complain

   
   
9. on March 18, 2016 at 4:45 pm | Reply Tim Devries

   I love your abridge stuff

   Sent from my iPhone

   
   
10. on March 19, 2016 at 8:12 pm | Reply Laurel Nelson

    Love these, but where were you before I tried reading Walden?!

    
    
11. on March 19, 2016 at 10:17 pm | Reply Mike Ballard

    Hilarious! Please do the major religious books next.

    
    
12. on March 19, 2016 at 10:17 pm | Reply Ken Court

    Great synopsis.

    
    
13. on March 20, 2016 at 12:20 pm | Reply Anonymous

    How about “The Bible” w/ 1-word — God (or w/ 3 — God & Man) … not that I believe (trust me, I don’t at all).

    
    
    • on March 21, 2016 at 4:19 am | Reply Mike Ballard

      I the BIBLE should be followed in the next panel by the KORAN followed by another panel METAMORPHOSES followed by a pile of sacred texts 10 feet high, all with the same summaries: OBEY AUTHORITY & BEWARE. YOU’RE GOING LIVE FOREVER.

      
      
      • on March 21, 2016 at 4:21 am Mike Ballard

        SORRY. YOU’RE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER.

        
        
14. on March 21, 2016 at 12:48 am | Reply J

    Thank you. I could barely get thought the first twenty pages of Crime and Punishment. Finally can get rid of the book and the ebook.

    
    
15. on March 21, 2016 at 2:13 pm | Reply tldr | Broadsheet.ie

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16. on March 23, 2016 at 11:27 am | Reply La semana en links | loquedigalaoruga

    […] los clásicos para gente que pasa de leerlos. […]

    
    
17. on March 25, 2016 at 12:01 pm | Reply Aaliya K Singh

    You have converted voluminous classics into single sentences. Hats off to you Dear Atkinson.

    
    
18. on March 29, 2016 at 2:14 pm | Reply feelinghungryrightnow

    Do the Great Gatsby next! That’ll make my day. Love your comics!

    
    
19. on March 30, 2016 at 8:11 am | Reply Abridged Classics (via Wrong Hands) | mgpcpastor's blog

    […] There’s a skill in summarising a book’s central theme. From here. Here’s a second dose. […]

    
    
20. on April 13, 2016 at 5:04 pm | Reply mudpilewood

    Ahhhhh I shouldn’t have read your strip as we pnly started watching Beowolf.

    
    
21. on April 21, 2016 at 7:17 am | Reply (more) abridged classics | ahouseofbooks

    […] Source: (more) abridged classics […]

    
    
22. on April 25, 2016 at 4:32 pm | Reply nooradil98

    I have one! A suitable boy?!

    
    
23. on August 11, 2016 at 11:45 am | Reply Mike Bordick

    Do Les Miserables and a Tale of Two Cities.

    
    
24. on October 9, 2016 at 3:53 am | Reply John Atkinson, il vignettista che riassume i grandi classici della letteratura

    […] libri che leggerete “prima o poi”? Il vignettista John Atkinson, che ha fondato il sito WrongHands, ha deciso di rappresentare attraverso delle vignette alcuni dei più grandi classici della […]

    
    
25. on November 30, 2016 at 7:04 am | Reply Classic Classics Summaries? – Memes… | Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

    […] Source: WrongHands1.com […]

    
    
26. on March 26, 2017 at 8:29 am | Reply Anonymous

    I’d love a poster of this!

    
    
    • on March 26, 2017 at 3:46 pm | Reply Wrong Hands

      Posters for some of my work can be found on RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/wronghands/works/21339348-more-abridged-classics

      
      

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