When I first started off thinking of "avatars" I thought people were going to put pictures of themselves as pictures. Well, that's not the case all the time.
When I came on here, I first found a picture of Sally from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" on Google and used that. And then I discovered the "Print Screen" button on my laptop........
For a while, I was using TMS episodes and Muppet movies and found pictures of Floyd, Janice, or both together, used the "Prt. Sc" button, went on to Windows Paint, edited and cropped it to my desire, and then BOOM! all done.
Recently, I've been getting back on my kick on "Tales Of The Wizard of Oz" and used this little icon I have now from the TV special, "Return To Oz," of which the special was based on the cartoon 3 years earlier.