Gallery: Your Favorite Authors as Dogs and Cats

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Today in things that are absurdly relevant to our interests: Illustrator Chet Phillips uses the program Painter to create animal portraits that range from Sinister Simians to Wrestle Pets. But, predictably enough, we have fallen in love with Phillips’s Literary Pets series, which transforms dozens of famous authors, from the Middle Ages through the present, into cats and dogs. Meet Oscar Wildecat, Dorothy Purrker, Joyce Feral Oates, and their four-legged friends after the jump, then click over to Etsy to buy an affordable print and see even more images from the series. For the indecisive among us, there are even two decks of Literary Pets trading cards.

Chet Phillips, Jane Pawsten, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

(h/t Kate Harding)

Chet Phillips, Edgar Allan Pug, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Dorothy Purrker, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Bark Twain, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Virginia Woof, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Kurt Vonnemutt, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Harpurr Lee, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Jack Russell Kerouac, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Joyce Feral Oates, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Ernest Hemingstray, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Emeowly Brontë, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Oscar Wildecat, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Margaret Catwood, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Dante Colliegheri, 4.5” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy

Chet Phillips, Franz Katka, 4.5 ” x 6.5”, $18 at Etsy