What the Dickens was That?

Has the Chicago Tribune Creepy Cartoonist been inhaling too much Canadian wildfire smoke? The Chicago Tribune (a family publication) syndicated this drawing from the Creepy Tribune Cartoonist™:

Join, or die (Scott Stantis/For the Chicago Tribune)

Readers were left with the grim task of putting a name to the picture:

A spokesman for Cthulhu says the picture looks nothing like him.