Darwin Day

Feb 12, 2007

Octopi and squid from Kunstformen der Natur (1899–1904) by Ernst Haeckel.

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• The glass menagerie

#1 posted by Eroom Nala

Feb 13th, 2007

No doubt this provides some of the inspiration for your squiddy illustrations to Jeff Vandermmeer’s City of Saints and Madmen
#2 posted by John

Feb 13th, 2007

Oh, indeed. I’ve shamelessly plundered poor old Ernst’s pictures on many occasions, most notably on the Yuggoth picture in HotD:

http://www.johncoulthart.com/haunter/yuggoth.html

That was a photocopy collage that I later tweaked a bit in Photoshop. In my defence, I’m not the first by any means. Alan Moore copied those gorgon-headed starfish for his cover picture on the Hexentexts CD and there’s a painting by Salvador Dali that features one of Haeckel’s radiolaria.

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