Although Vulgar Army is infrequently published, I still follow and am always hopeful for new content.
The intent behind VA is to identify and criticise themes in the use of the octopus as a metaphor in propaganda and political cartoons, as well as identify its relation to popular culture.
Socialism Octopus by Louis Wain
A Horrible Monster from the Daily Graphic
Tako No Asirai (Octopus Treading) by Kobayashi Kiyochika
"School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) have a poster featuring ‘the people’ cutting of the limbs of a skulltopus (Illustration by Haik Hoisington, 2006). The text roughly translates as: “The School Closure Of Murderers! Never More! Enough already!” (Google Translate, Accessed: 29th Nov 2008)."
The bottom two are both from Of Maps and Octopuses: Revisited