Inktober 13: Rise

Mouse never ate calamari ever again.

I read “The Call of Cthulhu” by H. P. Lovecraft in order to draw this, at the request of my husband, who is a Lovecraft fan. At one point Cthulhu’s head is described as “cuttlefish-like,” and although I think cuttlefish are pretty cute, I can see how this would be terrifying under the circumstances. They do have the strangest and most alien eyes. And…tentacles.

Last year I based a comic for one of the prompts (“Uh-Oh”) on “The Statement of Randolph Carter,” so possibly this will become an annual tradition. In which case, I should probably start reading Lovecraft’s work at a better rate than one story a year.