I'm pretty sure I posted this link on the old Gateway forums, but it might be good to have it here as well.

http://www.allavatars.com

It's a gallery of high quality avatar images for webmasters who care about and respect intellectual property. From their blurb:

Most internet users do not realize that the beautiful artwork they see online is copyrighted material, owned by the artists who created them. Unfortunately, it is common practice for these individuals to take the artwork and modify it according to their needs to create personal avatars and signatures, without ever crediting the original artist. All Avatars.com was created to give artists a way to control the quality and appearance of avatars created from their artwork, and to give them the credit they deserve. Every avatar posted on All Avatars.com is posted with the artist's permission.

--Alayla

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