elainehsu.ca: Hot Coco — Elaine Hsu Illustration

Art Director, Illustrator, sleeper-inner.

HOT COCO (O’BRIEN)

I’ve been a fan of Conan O’Brien’s since his original talk show (I attended a taping in 1995!) and when he was a writer for The Simpsons.

I created this series when he went viral for his “Hot Ones” appearance and suddenly became the internet’s favourite wacky uncle.

A vector illustraBtion of Conan O'rien in a blue suit on a blue background. — Coco during his late night talk show days

Illustration of Conan O'Brien wearing a knitted Angry Bird hat and holding a rubber chicken, on a yellow background. — A segment from Conan’s trip to Thailand for “Conan Must Go”

Around this time he also released his travel series Conan O’Brien Must Go, featuring a monologue by Werner Herzog describing Conan’s “dull tiny eyes… of a crudely painted doll.”

An illustration of Conan O'Brien sweating and drooling profusely, with bits of hot sauce on his face and a chicken bone in his jacket pocket — Conan during his viral “Hot Ones” appearance