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Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 - August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was also a contributor to the underground comix movement whose work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, having designed some of their best known posters and record jackets. He was also known for his work within the surfing subculture, including his comic strip about a surfer named "Murphy" (aka "Murph the Surf"). June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ...
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August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1991 (MCMXCI in Roman) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Artist Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ...
Santanas Abraxas (album) cover by Mati Klarwein The Psychedelic Era (1965-1975), associated with the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline and psilocybin), produced psychedelic art which may enjoyed by both those who have, and who have not, had a personal psychedelic experience. ...
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Zap Comix is among the best-known of the underground comics that emerged as part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. ...
The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band. ...
Griffin was born near Palos Verdes amidst the surfing culture of southern California. After attending high school, he worked on the staff of Surfer magazine where he created his surfing comic strip. In Los Angeles, Griffin met a group of artists and musicians known as the Jook Savages and participated in the Watts Acid Test held by Ken Kesey. Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. ...
Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a cultural icon whom some consider a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ...
After seeing the psychedelic rock posters that were being designed by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly, Griffin and the Jook Savages decided to move to San Francisco in the fall of 1966, where he designed posters. His first art exhibition was for the Jook Savages, but organizers for the Human Be-In saw his work and asked him to design a poster for their event in January 1967. Chet Helms was also impressed by Griffin's work and asked him to design posters for the Family Dog parties at the Avalon Ballroom, which led Griffin to create concert posters for The Charlatans. Eventually, a poster distribution agency by the name of Berkeley Bonaparte hired Griffin, where he teamed up with the leading poster artists of the 1960s. Alton Kelly is an American artist best known for his psychedelic art, in particular his designs for 1960s rock concerts and albums. ...
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The Human Be-In was a happening in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967. ...
Chet Helms, or Chester Leo Helms, (August 2, 1942 to ~June 25, 2005), born in Santa Maria, California, was the eldest of three sons born to Chester and Novella Helms. ...
The Charlatans was an influential psychedelic rock band that played a pivotal role in the development of the San Francisco scene in the 1960s. ...
In 1991, Griffin was killed in an motorcycle accident in Petaluma, California. Petaluma is a city located in Sonoma County, California. ...
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Victor Moscoso is an American illustrator and comic artist, especially noted for his work in the late 1960s as a designer of psychedelic concert posters and a contributor to underground comix (he is among the artists who regularly appear in Zap Comix). ...
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