(CNN) -- If recent trends are any indication, cartoon self-caricatures are becoming more popular than the clichéd photo in the mirror headshot. Cartoon avatars, both classic and new, are hot right now. The cartoon-spawning series "Mad Men" is back. The critically and commercially successful AMC show about 1960s ad execs has revived its popular "Mad Men Yourself" campaign, which lets you create an animated doppelganger that smokes like a train and wouldn't be out of place in a film noir. Since "Mad Men Yourself" launched a year ago, thousands of people adorned their Facebook profiles with the retro caricatures. The trend was not unlike the personalized knockoffs of Shepard Fairley's striking Obama Hope design during the 2008 presidential election.
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The AMC show "Mad Men" has revived its popular "Mad Men Yourself" campaign
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The Wall Street Journal created an iconic "hedcut" of character Don Draper
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Many Facebook profiles have been taken over by caricatures
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One artist is enabling the portrait trend by using iPhone 4 video chats to create user avatars
In the meantime, feel free to pre-emptively block the return of the bathroom mirror self-portrait -- there's a @placeholder group for it.