'I'm With Coco' Artist Mike Mitchell Stays Busy With Pop Art

By Zach Dionne Posted Nov 17th 2010 07:30PM

Mike Mitchell skyrocketed to internet fame when he created an image that ignited a movement, now cataloged in the halls of the internet as 'I'm With Coco.'

In interviews with the New York Times, TMZ, and zillions of blogs (including a Q&A with PopEater), Mitchell headed toward a destiny of being forever known as the 'I'm With Coco' guy.

Then Rainn Wilson's new Twitter icon popped up -- a tricky little redux of the 'Social Network' ad campaign -- and we realized Mike Mitchell had stuck at his craft all along, fashioning modern interpretations of Captain Planet and Darkwing Duck and SpongeBob Squarepants drowning in the BP oil spill.

So we got him to share some art with us.

"This was done for the cult movie themed show at Gallery 1988," Mitchell tells us of that fancy image on the left, commissioned for a Kevin Smith-hosted event in LA.

After the jump, Mitchell shares a handful of his latest pop culture imagery, many of which are available in print form at his new online store, SirMitchell.com.

The Dude Invitational: "This was done for a sport's themed gallery show," Mitchell tells us. "I've always wanted to do a 'Big Lebowski' piece, so I picked bowling as my sport and created this event poster."

NES kid: "This is a sort of quasi-metaphorical self-portrait of my formative years. I was glued to the NES as a child."

Darkwing Duck Mike Mitchell

Darkwing Duck: "I am a child of the '80s and early '90s so I couldn't help but love Darkwing Duck. This is my take on him."

SpongeBob Mike Mitchell

SpongeBob: "I wanted to do a piece expressing my outrage over the BP spill and this is about as close as I could get."

Viking: "This was actually done about 18 months ago, and will be featured on a shirt in my new shop at SirMitchell.com! I wanted to create as ridiculous of a design as I could, and I'm pretty happy with how far I was able to take it."

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