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Matthew Douglas is a Designer and Illustrator currently living in Burlington, Vermont. From a young age, Bugs, Count Duckula, Stimpy, Donatello and Optimus Prime all helped develop Matt's passion for cartoons. After spending most of his teenage years drawing during math and history classes, he attended the Savannah College of Art & Design where he honed his skills in Animation and dodging Meter Maids. His drawings have shown up on Gig Posters for Of Monsters & Men, Guster, Kaki King, The Sam Roberts Band, Jedi Mind Tricks and Dragonforce. Matt's illustrations have landed on the pages of local pub Seven Days and traveled the world in various gallery shows. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.