Grateful Dead T-Shirt Catalog 1973 Stanley Mouse Monster Inc Biz Card Flyer RARE

  

Offered for sale is an original Monster T-Shirt Catalog, Business Card, and Retail Flyer (circa 1973-74), which was the very first licensed apparel outlet for the Grateful Dead and their iconic Mouse & Kelley designs from this period, featuring fantastic imagery, and are a historical reference source of this legendary series (see bio info below). The catalog totals eight pages, measures 11" x 8.5", is in "FINE" condition (see details above), and is very suitable for display in a permanent collection. Stanley George Miller (born October 10, 1940), better known as Mouse or Stanley Mouse, is an American artist. Who is notable for his 1960s psychedelic. Poster designs and album covers for the Grateful Dead.

Mouse was born in Fresno, California. He grew up in Detroit. Where he was given the nickname Mouse in grade school.

In 1956, he was expelled from Mackenzie High School. For mischievously repainting the façade at The Box, a restaurant across the street from the school. He spent his junior year at nearby Cooley High School. And completed his education at Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, which is now the College for Creative Studies. By 1958, Mouse was fascinated with the weirdo hot rod art movement that was founded a decade earlier in California.

Having developed skills using an airbrush. He began painting T-shirts at custom car. Shows, where he met and then worked with Ed Roth. The leading exponent of Weirdo Hot Rod art. In 1964, he was invited to help in the design of Monogram.

Automobile model kits using the "monster" cartoon characters he had developed to compete with Roth's Rat Fink. In 1966 and 1967, Mouse and Alton Kelley. Lived and worked from 715 Ashbury across the street from 710 Ashbury, where members of The Grateful Dead resided.

In 1965, Mouse travelled to San Francisco. With a group of art school friends. A self-taught artist who recently arrived from Virginia City, Nevada. Where he joined a group of hippies. Who called themselves the Red Dog Saloon gang.

Upon arrival in San Francisco, Kelley and other veterans of the gang renamed themselves The Family Dog, and began producing rock music dances. In 1966, when Chet Helms.

Assumed leadership of the group and began promoting the dances at the Avalon Ballroom. Mouse and Kelley began working together to produce posters for the events. The pair also later produced posters for promoter Bill Graham. And for other events in the psychedelic community.

From September 1967 to December 1967, Mouse and Kelley created psychedelic posters for shows at Helms' The Family Dog Denver. In 1967, Mouse collaborated with artists Kelley, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso. To create the Berkeley Bonaparte Distribution Agency. Mouse and Kelley also worked together as lead artists at Kelley Mouse studios producing album cover.

Art for the bands Journey. The Monster Company founded in 1971 also developed a profitable line of T-shirts, utilizing the four color process for silk screening. The psychedelic posters Mouse and Kelley produced were heavily influenced by Art Nouveau. Graphics, particularly the works of Alphonse Mucha.

Material associated with psychedelics, such as Zig-Zag. Producing posters advertising for such musical groups as Big Brother and the Holding Company. And Grateful Dead led to meeting the musicians and making contacts that were later to prove fruitful.

In 1969 Stanley was commissioned to paint Eric Clapton car in London. After brief periods in London and Massachusetts, he moved to Toronto. Where he ran a Yorkville. Waterbed store called The Waterbed Gallery, whose walls featured his artwork.

And the pair resumed their partnership, producing commercial artwork related to the Grateful Dead. The pair are credited with creating the skeleton and roses image that became the Grateful Dead's archetypal iconography, and Journey's wings and beetles that appeared on their album covers from 1977 to 1980. In 1977, Mouse, with Kelley, created the Styx.

Album cover for The Grand Illusion. Featuring a pastiche of René Magritte. Mouse and Kelley continued to work together on rock memorabilia until 1980.

In the early 1980s, Mouse moved to New Mexico. Where he began producing fine art in a variety of media.

In 1999, he contributed a portrait of Skip Spence. More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album. Being a collection of cover versions. Of songs by the co-founder of Moby Grape.

Performed by such artists as Beck. In 2002, Mouse filed a lawsuit against the producers of the film Monsters, Inc.

Alleging that the characters of Mike and Sulley were based on his drawings of Excuse My Dust, which he unsuccessfully pitched to Hollywood producers in 1998. A Disney spokeswoman responded that the characters in Monsters, Inc were "developed independently by the Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures creative teams, and do not infringe on anyone's copyrights".