The Giant Freshwater Octopus

Oklahoma’s Towering, Tentacled, Toddler Taking Terror!

So it seems Oklahoma has a pretty high rate of drownings in lots of their larger lakes. Casualties range from toddlers on the banks, veteran fisherman who’ve boated the waters all their lives, to of course the type of group of ne’er do well youths on a weekend camping adventure we’ve followed so often in movies… Anyways lots of folks have disappeared on these bodies of water, and when lots of folks disappear… legends get born…

Said to have a body somewhere around the size of a horse, covered in reddish brown leathery skin with tentacles that are forever long. It would seem our eight armed assailant has not just the hunger for flesh but an unquenchable thirst for suffering as most of, if not all of the beasts victims eventually surface showing bruising similar to what one would see as an undercurrent carried a person through a deep water maze of sticks and rocks… Ooooor if a giant octopus had continually slapped them against a rocky cliff like so many bags of frozen together ice.

Now could the Giant Freshwater Octopus exist and in fact have nothing to do with all the disappearances… sure, I’ll give you that… but in that case I expect your beast to be having one hell of an underwater tea party!

So most of you know what an Octopus looks like, so may i suggest just making that idea bigger and don’t forget they can do that crazy skin changing color trick and shoot ink clouds… As for what Oklahoma looks like… meh no idea… but from my description up above, it seems to be a watery murder filled hellscape… so you know I trust you can figure it out!

Submissions Are Closed For Judgement!

our judgeI dug deep in my address book this week and pulled out one hell of a celebrity Judge, Former CTO for Playboy Enterprises and now teamed up with a telecom superstar to create a damn fine cloud solution in RootAxcess… Those of you who know him, know he’s a crazy nice guy and those of you who don’t… well trust me he’s one hell of a nice guy who always looked out for his own and was well loved by his employees. Now will he be a good judge of octopi? Well that’s pretty much up to you so get to doodling! Please feel free to include your own caption with your entry, I may add a word or two but I’ll try to stay true to your original intent!

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 5

The First Place Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry

” nothin fancy … just a sleazy squid …” – haha why does that make me laugh so? And you gotta admit while sleazy… dude knows how to multitask with his tentacles… I am however curious where he got icewater…

Judge’s Commentary – I choose this picture based on 2 thoughts: Creativity and ingenuity. Sometimes art does not have to be the most colorful, ornate, or elaborate to be the best. In a very simple black and white drawing, this artist came up with a way to tell a story… a very clever and witty one at that. Honestly, it just made me laugh. Nice job and well done.

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 3

The Second Place Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry

Yes! Such sharp teeth and ill intent! Though I’m gonna have to claim that guy is leaning a lil “sharktopus” … but i mean… is there even fault in that? And while I hate em in real life you gotta love the bulbous eyes on a fish drawing!

Judge’s Commentary – Being such a huge fan of the movie Jaws (and Sharktopus), I am a just a sucker for the resemblance. Additionally, the cartoon looking art design is really nice. It takes a different type of art skill to portray an image that is less sketchy and a true cartoon type of illustration. Very nice job here. BTW, just to be clear about my Jaws comment, I only refer to the original; let’s forget about the rest of the sequels.

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 1

The Third Place Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry

Yes Jeanshorts! And all the cool “squids” are wearing their suckers on the tops of their arms these days! ….Anybody else get the feeling he’s on the coiled up part of about his 1000th giant octopus jumping jack?

Judge’s Commentary – I choose this picture this for 3rd place not because it is the most artistic and creative, but it is basic and down to the point. I pictured a very simple thought in this contestants mind and they just started to draw. The jeans overalls did it for me, who would have thought of that? It also brought me back to the days of Squiddly Diddly (if you are not familiar try here ).

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 2

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 2

I’m not even sure what that posture is communicating? Curious big game hunter? Bothered socialite from the upper crustacea…. nooo they’re mollusks… so that doesnt work… anyway he’s kinda Cthulhu, he’s got tiny toe tentacles so you know he bowls like a Flintsone and it turns out I can draw a pretty adorable swimming butt!

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 4

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 4

Hells yeah the Hulkster! And in old timey atire! You gotta wonder if our protagonist this week has ever faced 24 inch pythons before or for that matter, the force of a million lil hulkamaniacs? Great crazy eyes btw!

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 6

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 6

Well dammit if that’s just not pretty as all hell, poor lil hugged to death Oklahoma! and I like that Texas has a face that… well… let’s be honest… that texas deserves! “TEXAS LOVE CHUNK!”

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 7

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 7

Ha! I swear there’s something familiar about that victim! I remember when i was a lil kid drawing and I would always painfully try and match the size of the sucker to the taper of the tentacle… and had I only known its just 1000 times more fun to blast a bunch of circles in the general vicinity of where they could be… plus, mismatched suckers are badass! Great green teeth too!

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 8

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 8

Oh hell! haha… but he doesn’t even have a horribly misplaced pig nose! Seanism man, it’s a good schtick! And call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure he’d look great in a pair of round encyclopedia brown glasses, and one would also assume it would help him solve mysteries.

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 9

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 9

I was curious if we’d get anything squidbillies like… great country teeth and dammit if underwater smoking wasn’t one of my favorite imaginary happenings as pool swimming youth (surprise surprise) cause underwater tea parties quite honestly, just felt too stuffy…

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 10

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 10

I’m just gonna let James splain this one… “Years ago someone gave me this Octohorn. I never knew what to do with it, so I scanned it in at PB, hung up the print in my cube and threw the horn out. I now know it was destined for this contest…” And I’ll add this….James obviously throws away presents! And is therefore a horrible, horrible man ๐Ÿ˜‰

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 11

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 11

Man imaginary nature will blow your mind! Upon first glance I sort of assume its a single prey lure like an anglerfish or something… But after an evening’s sleep, why not give it the benefit of the doubt… maybe this is a beautiful symbiotic relationship where the octopus creates safe haven where there is none, in exchange for an almost unlimited supply of lovingly chewed and regurgitated chow

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 12

The Giant Freshwater Octopus Entry # 12

Haha! No fair! is this gonna be one of those magic beasts where we say oh look so cute then someone finds our corpses like 2 months later having starved to death as it’s impossible to look away? Also if you were to put a lil button nose about bucket level… he’d look oddly like an ewok!

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