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Histioteuthis ruppellii.<\/em><\/p>\n Suckered pseudopods flex and writhe again this week with simultaneous postings at BibliOdyssey and Sci-Fi-O-Rama. Coincidence or some cephalopodic zeitgeist thing? You decide. BibliOdyssey has a fine set of natural history plates<\/a> showing various squid and octopuses while Sci-Fi-O-Rama presents a small collection of illustrations by Barnaby Ward<\/a>. If it’s boys and tentacles you want (and who doesn’t?), then there’s always the art of NoBeast<\/a>.<\/p>\n Untitled drawing by Barnaby Ward.<\/em><\/p>\n Ernst Haeckel remains my favourite tentacle illustrator, and the octopus below is one of his examples from Kunstformen der Natur<\/em><\/a> (1899\u20131904). Somewhere (although Cthulhu knows where) I have a drawing by Hal Foster from one of his Prince Valiant<\/em> strips showing a sinister octopus in a pit which is almost a match for Haeckel’s, and may even have been based on it. If I ever find it again I’ll post it here. Meanwhile, China Mi\u00e9ville’s Kraken<\/em><\/a> is currently lurking on bookshelves, and let me remind you again that he discusses that novel and other works over at Salon Futura<\/em><\/a>. While we’re on the subject, let’s not forget the Octopulps<\/a>.<\/p>\n Octopus by Ernst Haeckel.<\/em><\/p>\n Finally, a note to say that my webhost is moving this site to a new server which may cause some disruption to these pages for the next few days. As always, your patience is appreciated.<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Histioteuthis ruppellii. Suckered pseudopods flex and writhe again this week with simultaneous postings at BibliOdyssey and Sci-Fi-O-Rama. Coincidence or some cephalopodic zeitgeist thing? You decide. BibliOdyssey has a fine set of natural history plates showing various squid and octopuses while Sci-Fi-O-Rama presents a small collection of illustrations by Barnaby Ward. If it’s boys and tentacles … Continue reading “Fascinating tentacula”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48,13],"tags":[1721,1042,1952,1032,104,1723,1724,1722,1953,1699,1105],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-science","tag-barnaby-ward","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-cephalopods","tag-china-mieville","tag-cthulhu","tag-ernst-haeckel","tag-hal-foster","tag-nobeast","tag-rune-olsen","tag-salon-futura","tag-sci-fi-o-rama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-200","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ward.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ward.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Jewelled butterflies and cephalopods<\/a>
\n\u2022 Haeckel fractals<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ernst Haeckel, Christmas card artist<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Rune Olsen<\/a>
\n\u2022 Octopulps<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of NoBeast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"