This is a print of my painting of a giant squid attacking the Nautilus submarine in Jules Verne's classic science fiction masterpiece "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

The print is done on ivory card stock paper to replicate the look and feel of card catalog cards, which librarians typed up on index cards. It measures 3 x 5 inches, the same as a real card. The print ships in a clear archival sleeve tucked into a protective cardboard photo mailer.

To see more library card art, visit the “Library Card Catalogue” section of my shop at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/WingedWorld?section_id=11288915

My painting was inspired by this passage in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea":

Suddenly, the Nautilus stopped. A blow made the ship tremble violently. Ned, Conseil, and I rushed to the window, then froze.
There, before our eyes wriggled a terrible monster – a giant squid twenty-five feet long. The eight snakelike tentacles coming out of its head were twisting about furiously. Suckers on the inside of each tentacle had fastened themselves to the window.
The monster's mouth – a horny beak – opened and closed rapidly. Its long body, with a bump in the middle, formed a huge fleshy mass which weighed at least 50,000 pounds!