And, forty minutes later, I answer my own question. The name of the deliciously deranged artist who painted a thyroidic, psychopathic Mario stomping the jelly-like brains of a Goomba out of its spurting eye sockets has an identity, and his name is Handre De Jager. And better yet, he's done more twisted video game inspired works, and they're all available to buy as prints, dirty cheap.

Here's one that he did of Dig Dug. I have no idea what the hell is going on here: this is certainly never the way I mnemonically pictured my adventures in a little subterranean drill machine. Handre describes it as:

. An innumerable amount of hellish, subterranean beasts are unleashed upon humanity. Soldiers trained specially in the arts of pumping and digging are sent to obliterate the foul monsters from beneath the soil, but alas; many of them perish and some turn evil themselves. It is up to an exceptionally brave, surviving soldier to stop the horror by means of over inflation.

For $5.95 each, I'm buying every one of these posters and hanging them in my bathroom. I've always felt that the current paintings of dainty WAVES sipping bottles of Coca-Cola was missing a certain punch-you-in-the-junk panache. Florian Eckhardt

Handre De Jagre's Art [Awful Mart]