Today there's a Sunday special for you. It is not a doodle, like usual, but part of a small series of illustrations I did for Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.

It depicts what I imagine Captain Nemo's pet was going to look like. There is no pet mentioned in the novel, as far as I remember, but I imagine Captain Nemo as more of a cat person than a dog person. The novel also describes the most wonderful and strange creatures of the sea, as well as the Captains' advanced marine biology knowledge...hence the catopus. It is science fiction after all, and who wouldn't love a cuddly cat with eight tentacles?

Also, there is the Big Bang Theory's dogtopus, so obviously we need a catopus, too.

(watercolour pencils, smelly marker pens and felt-tip pen on tracing paper)