PULPO FICTION

The other night I was leafing through an old edition of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea (La Travailleurs de la Mer) & I came across a picture of the Guernseyman hero, Gilliat, grappling with a monstrous octopus.

So…

Monster-of-the-Week: ...for no other reason than that Saturday is the 125th anniversary of Hugo’s death, & also that they’re kickass pictures, this week let’s give the nod to this eight-armed invertebrate menace. The beautiful third drawing—from which the second appears to have been adapted—is by Hugo himself: