Discussion on answer by Dan Bron: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?

I got curious about the question too and had a quick glance at the metadata the clipart files the Y letter originated from (if you look for "Y" in the Baidu image search, you'll find the original *eps files on the first page of the search results).
It appears they were created back in 1995 by a user "Capn Crook" whose computer name was "Smash Palace Mac" and later modified by the user Lisa(not sure if they are different people or not) in 1997.
The original names followed the standard convention of "Cartoon <letter name>", but there are two deviants, namely, letter Ö is named "Crtn. Double D…