To kick off an expansion into illustration services, Visual.ly invited some of their featured designers to illustrate a series of pre-selected jokes. They recently announced the launch via social media with a “joke of the day” type of campaign.

I chose to do this joke by Jerry Seinfeld:
“I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can’t smell it, can’t eat it, can’t taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, ‘Well, here it is. You can’t have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.’”

Somehow, I could relate. If you know my love of food, it would be no wonder. And naturally, when picturing the scene, I just had to include some of my real life details – my always-ravenous Chihuahua and the frisky kitty who can’t keep his paws off anything that moves, real or digital. Here is the resulting illo: