Indie Squid Kid

Dan Beard, 1887

Via Cephalolove (via finegarten)

Earlier this year Quirk Classics took the publishing world by storm with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Will their new literary mashup be able meet such great expectations? I say YES!

A) It has sea monsters, B) it has illustrations…

and C) OMG! The book trailer!

It goes on sale on September 15, and you can pre-order it from Amazon.com.

Giant Squid 1955, originally uploaded by Tom Simpson.

While this has nothing to do with cephalopods depicted in artwork, I thought I should mention that Darren Naish is doing his own theme week over at one of my favorite blogs, Tetrapod Zoology.

It is Sea Monster week at Tet Zoo, and each day Darren explores a lesser-known beastie from the annals of cryptozoology–using his razor-sharp scientific mind to critically analyze the evidence for each case (such as it is). Like the title of his blog suggests, Darren’s focus is on tetrapods (i.e. reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and birds), so don’t expect any Kraken or gigantic octopi. However, sea serpents, giant tadpoles, plesiosaurs and prehistoric whales are all fair game!

Since I have no idea when you are reading this (although I am very glad you are!), here are posts in question:

• The Hook Island sea monster
• The Moore’s Beach monster
• Professor Sharpe’s sea serpent
• Tecolutla monster