Messages from the Classics
A birthday card from Count Dracula. A get well note from Sherlock Holmes. A wedding toast from Mr Darcy. Every character is drawn and voiced from the book itself, with the lines to prove it.
Free beta: one free picture a day. 18 and over only. More from £1, or join for £4.99 a month.
The pilot cast: ten characters, ten genres
Gothic horror
Detective
Romance
Pirate adventure
Children's animal fantasy
Science fiction
Christmas ghost story and comic fable
Spy thriller
Jazz Age literary fiction
Fairy tale
Why ours look different
Our golden rule: always book accurate. Where the book is silent on a detail, we say so on the sheet and keep the picture plain, rather than borrow from a film.
Most versions of these people come from films. Ours come from the page. Dracula has a long white moustache and hair on his palms. The Scarecrow has a painted face and blue clothes. Each character has a reference sheet with quotes checked word for word against the book, and a list of film looks we will not copy.
The full cast 🔒 Members
88 more characters from Shakespeare, Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Cervantes, Wonderland, the Jungle Book, Greek and Norse gods and heroes, and more. You can read every card and sheet now. Making pictures with them needs membership. Free users keep the pilot ten.
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Macbeth
Macbeth
Henry IV Part 1
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
The Tempest
Othello
King Lear
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Richard III
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dickens
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Martin Chuzzlewit
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
American classics
Little Women
Moby Dick
The Sketch Book
The Sketch Book
The Scarlet Letter
Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Gothic and horror
Frankenstein
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Phantom of the Opera
The Invisible Man
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in The Sketch Book
The Call of Cthulhu
Romance and manners
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
Children's fantasy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Peter and Wendy
The Jungle Book
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Black Beauty
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
Adventure
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Three Musketeers
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Moby Dick
Gulliver's Travels
Detectives
The Final Problem in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Gods and heroes
The Iliad
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The Odyssey and The Iliad
The Poetic Edda
The Younger Edda
The Younger Edda
Translated classics
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
Notre-Dame de Paris
Les Misérables
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
The Snow Queen
Cinderella
