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Sam Fout is a poster, comics, and toy artist based in Columbus. Sam’s vast Rock Poster and merch work includes artists such as The Ramones, Bootsy Collins, Dinosaur Jr, The Melvins, MC5, Sleep, and The Misfits. His posters and fine art have been displayed in galleries worldwide, and his comic art, designs and stories have been published internationally. His vinyl toys are sold in toy shops, boutiques and galleries everywhere. His animation has appeared on Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Saturday Night Live. Sam has created art for clients as diverse as Star Wars, Disney, Kidrobot and Hanna Barbera. Currently, Sam is working on more Rock Posters, beer label art for Ill Mannered Brewery, designing for vinyl record store Legend Records, illustrating children’s books, and continuing work on his own graphic novel Lemon Squad. 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.