This Shane Smith Sports a Disney Tattoo
Kelsey Dake tweaks the Vice co-founder's shirtless M.O.
The latest contribution to Variety by Phoenix-based freelance illustrator Kelsey Dake is arguably her best work yet for the publication.
The sight of Shane Smith without a shirt is a familiar one. But here, Dake cleverly imagines the tattoos as inked emblems of his marquee, mainstream media partners. Previously for the re-energized Hollywood trade, Dake has created illustrations of Donald Trump, Lena Dunham and more.
In the accompanying cover story by Variety senior TV editor Brian Steinberg (written with some additional help from Todd Spangler), various folks weigh in on the imminent arrival of Vice’s cable channel Viceland:
“They are going after millennial men — it’s what everyone is trying to do to get them to embrace television channels like they did MTV back in the 1980s,” says Ira Berger, director of national broadcast buying at the Richards Group, a large independent ad agency based in Dallas.
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