Now that the excitement is simmering down, we can get back to the task at hand, which is making more art.

Like this, submitted to John Purcell for his fanzine Askance.



The weird creatures, for those who are counting, are various appendages ganked from The Invertebrata, by L. A. Borradaile et al., 1955 reprint of the Second Edition from 1935.  I particularly used mouth parts and swimmerets from various crustaceans.

The book itself is interesting because many critters therein have since been reclassified.  This text, for example, lists Tardigrada (water bears) as a class within the subphylum of Arachnida in the phylum Arthropoda - as opposed to the current classification of Tardigrades in their own phylum.  The book also uses the archaic term "Coelenterata" as a phylum comprising the subphyla Cnidaria (jellyfish and anemones) and Ctenophora (sea gooseberries).  Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms. 

So now you know.