Producing posters advertising for such musical groups as Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Grateful Dead led to meeting the musicians and making contacts that were later to prove fruitful. Material associated with psychedelics, such as Zig-Zag rolling papers, were also referenced. The psychedelic posters Mouse and Kelley produced were heavily influenced by Art Nouveau graphics, particularly the works of Alphonse Mucha and Edmund Joseph Sullivan. The Monster Company also developed a profitable line of T-shirts, utilizing the four color process for silk screening. Mouse and Kelley also worked together as lead artists at Mouse Studios and The Monster Company, producing album cover art for the bands Journey and Grateful Dead. In 1967, Mouse collaborated with artists Kelley, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson to create the Berkeley Bonaparte Distribution Agency. From September 1967 through December 1967 Mouse and Kelley created psychedelic posters for shows at Helms’ The Family Dog Denver. Later the pair also produced posters for promoter Bill Graham and for other events in the psychedelic community. 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. Upon arrival in San Francisco Kelley and other veterans of the gang renamed themselves The Family Dog, and began producing rock music dances. Kelley, a self-taught artist, had recently arrived from Virginia City, Nevada, where he had joined a group of hippies who called themselves the Red Dog Saloon gang. Settling initially in Oakland, Mouse met Alton Kelley. In 1965, Mouse travelled to San Francisco, California with a group of art school friends. Īs of June 2023, Mouse was recovering at his home of 20 years in Sebastopal, Sonoma County, California, from a disabling stroke that had left him with an inability to draw. In 1966–1967, Mouse and Alton Kelley lived and worked from 715 Ashbury (across the street from the house where The Grateful Dead lived at 710 Ashbury). 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' character. In 1959, Mouse and his family founded Mouse Studios, a mail-order company, which sold his products. Mouse was also strongly influenced by the art of Rick Griffin, with whom he would later collaborate on posters and album covers. There he met and worked with Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, the leading exponent of Weirdo Hot Rod art. Having developed skills using an airbrush he began painting T-shirts at custom car shows. īy 1958, Mouse had become fascinated by the Weirdo hot rod art movement that had begun in California a decade earlier.

Following his junior year at nearby Cooley High School, Mouse completed his formal education at Detroit's Society of Arts and Crafts. He was expelled from Mackenzie High School (Michigan) in 1956 for mischievously repainting the façade at The Box, a popular restaurant across the street from Mackenzie. He was given the nickname Mouse as a ninth grader. Personal life īorn in Fresno, California, Miller grew up in Detroit, Michigan. 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 rock concert poster designs and album covers for the Grateful Dead, Journey, and other bands. JSTOR ( September 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.

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