The Last Lovecraft uses it more for some cheap and obvious horror comedy.
Perhaps it’s just because “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926) is the first of the major Cthulhu-Mythos stories Lovecraft published. And, it contains all the thematic elements of the mythos, including (1) exiled dark-gods waiting to take back the Earth and (2) a cult of deluded and degenerate humans worshipping same.
That’s why this has always been my favorite Cthulhu drawing. Because if I saw that in real life, I’m pretty sure I’d be gibbering madly myself. While soiling my pants :D.
Dagon comes close.
There’s also bunch of comedy anime series, with very little horror, under the general title of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. In that Nyarlathotep is one of the protagonists, in the form of a teenage girl called Nyaruko.
The real reason is Cthulhu got blowed up real good by a boat. Humans like believing we’re the center of the universe. We have aircraft carriers now and quite a few more nautical looking negroes. We can tell ourselves we might survive.
A few what now? :dubious:
Hmm, Chimera is afraid of Cthulhu. OK, now we just need to get Scylla, Sauron, and (Candid) Gamera to weigh in to figure out who’s the baddest of the fictional monsters.
And then he started regenerating again right afterward. Any “victory” we could achieve would be temporary.
And this was when the stars weren’t “right” and he wasn’t truly awake. When his time truly comes, nukes will only make him mad.
It’s from “The Call of Cthulhu.” Do try to pretend you belong reading this thread. 
Hastur la vista, baby.
Really… no-one yet has mentioned the greatest of all Cthulhu tributes. How soon we forget.
It changed lives.
So what ? We’ll just brain him with a cargo ship again, and it’s back to nappy time. 
Yeah, sure, we haven’t heard that one before. Wasn’t quite ready, it happens to every eldritch abomination once in a while, it’s not him it’s the stars, yadda yadda.
I dunno. Looks kind of oblong to me.
He waits and dreams in the deep and the cities of man shall fall before him!
On a more Euclidean note
Besides all that has been said, Cthulhu has a well-described form that’s easy to draw and sculpt. OTTOMH Shub Nigurrauth is vaguely described as tentacles and legs coming out of a cloud. Yog Sothoth is often described as a ‘congerie of iridescent bubbles’.
Cthulhu is big and bad, but you just need to make a fat, green guy with an octopus for a head and wings.
I’ve mentioned RinkWorks.com and its Book-A-Minute and Movie-A-Minute sites before. I love Thomas Deeny’s summing up of The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft:
There was also a parody of Lovecraft’s style somewhere which included the line: “It was a horror beyond description. I will describe it for you in detail.”
Ah, that would be like what I saw. Waking vision during an overcast day with dark, low clouds below the top of a 39 story condo building and just above the top of a 17 story building across the street. Saw vast tentacles dropping down from those clouds to envelop the smaller building, then the larger building.
Well, I did say we like to THINK we could survive.
That’s what I use as my desktop wallpaper.
Fortunately they now have such abominable blasphemous fruits of the furtive and degenerate alchemist’s dark arts as V’iaghhra’a and C’iyalitsz.