Top dog! Kelsey Dake smashes it again with her new illustrations for McSweeney's

Date
21 August 2012

Illustrator extraordinaire and all-round cool gal Kelsey Dake has just updated her website with some more lovely illustration from the past few weeks of hard freelance graft. Top of the pile are these three enormous pieces for McSweeney’s #41 – now you all know we love McSweeney’s, and you must at least have an inkling by now of how much we love Kelsey. So this post is a total no-brainer – killer illustration, sweet publication, match made in heaven.

What’s particularly wonderful about the horribly mutilated dog is that it’s based on Kelsey’s own pooch, Truman, who’s a regular star on her Twitter feed. We can only hope the severed torso was imagined and not a straight-up life drawing, otherwise we might have to change our opinion of Miss Dake to preserve our stringent moral code.

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Kelsey Dake for McSweeney’s #41

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Kelsey Dake for McSweeney’s #41

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Kelsey Dake for McSweeney’s #41

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Kelsey Dake for McSweeney’s #41

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Kelsey Dake for McSweeney’s #41

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Kelsey Dake for McSweeney’s #41

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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