Portrait of an Iron Giant as a Young Vin Diesel

Mike Mitchell is an American artist and illustrator known for his pop culture-inspired artwork. His work often features vibrant, stylized portraits of iconic characters from movies, TV shows, and comic books. He gained widespread recognition for his Just Like Us series, which humorously depicts famous characters in everyday, relatable situations. Mitchell has also collaborated with major entertainment companies like Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Mondo, producing officially licensed posters and prints. His art style is characterized by bold colors, clean lines, and a mix of realism with a graphic, almost cartoon-like quality. His Fat Birds series and Super series (featuring minimalist superhero portraits) are also fan favorites.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.