We’re ringing in the new year with an awesome game from the old year. Thanks to a holiday discount from Microsoft, Castle Crashers has found new life and new fans on the Xbox 360, and this week’s Fan Art Friday is all about those crazy little knights and their adventures.

It’s Christmas Day, and it’s a perfect time to spotlight some holiday fan art of one particular famous fellow: Santa Claus! There are a couple of geeky drawings thrown in here, but most of this week’s collection consists of straight-up art showcasing good ol’ Saint Nick.

James Cameron’s long awaited Avatar is in theaters this week. Will it live up to the immense hype? Time will tell, but it certainly already has a big fanbase with enough fan art to warrant a Fan Art Friday feature on its day of release.

Indie comic book Hack Slash tells the story of Cassandra Hack and her monstrous friend Vlad, a team of slasher slayers that tracks down and eliminates crazed serial killers and creatures. It’s gained a huge cult following, and it’s the focus of this week’s Fan Art Friday.

In all the time we’ve been doing Fan Art Friday, we somehow never have touched on all the marvelous art inspired by The Lord of the Rings. That changes this week as we spotlight the legendary Ranger Aragorn in this gallery of fan art.

The second installment in the Assassin’s Creed game series hit stores this month. As a fan of the original game, I felt like it was high time I paid respect to Altair, Ezio, and their worlds. Here’s a collection of awesome Assassin’s Creed fan art, with links to the original works in the artists’ galleries.

We featured Twilight in Fan Art Friday exactly a year ago when the first movie in the Twilight Saga premiered. With New Moon hitting theaters this week, it only seems right that we revisit the series to see some more awesome fan art featuring the vamp, the wolf, and the girl.

With this week’s news that Fox has canceled Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, it seems like a good time to look back at some of the other great series that died early deaths on the Fox network. Here’s a collection of fan art featuring some of the fantastic TV shows that got the axe.

It’s been well over a year since I featured Joss Whedon’s space western in Fan Art Friday. In that time the Browncoat artists have been turning out loads of awesome works, so let’s revisit the crew of Serenity for some more great fan art.

It’s Halloween week, and what better way to wrap up our month long fan art tribute to the ghoulish and ghastly than with a collection of awesome artwork featuring the Addams Family?