JJ Grandville was actually a cartoonist of this era who used to draw images like this for political or comic effect. Set in a Steampunk Victoriana Anthropormorphic Rupert The Bear World, where humans are Tintin-like hairless chimpanzees, and everything else is a humanoid with an animal head, and skin/hair to match. Well Grandville brought me back, smashing me to the ground. Of course they followed it up in the second season by taking the cast of Eighty Days and inserting them into the books Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea which someone been schmooshed together – and had the titles to match. Fog is my name and I can play with my life in many ways that's what they saaaayyy." Most Brits of my age can sing along to "Fog, I'm the one who made the bet and I know we'll be exactly right on tiiiime.
And I loved it, even if the title sequence was spoileriffic to the max. Eighty Days Around The World With Willy Fog, a Spanish cartoon taking the seminal Jules Verne novel and anthromorphing it up.
When I was an adolescent, I had a guilty secret.
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