Le Stumpy
Here's a couple of preliminary sketches to get the ideas flowing when I started work on the Eric Broers "Thought Processor" project. The concept was a 1940's angry French Octopus. Part of why he was so disgruntled was that he had stubby tentacles. On top of that one of them was even shorter than the rest due to a birth defect... Like I said, it was a launching point. I liked how the curly handlebar moustache looked like curled up fists, as seen in some cartoons depicting old school boxers.