As the popularity of Griffin's designs soared, he was sought out to lend his vision to album jackets; his most memorable work was done in conjunction with the Grateful Dead, for whom he created the classic cover to 1969's Aoxomoxoa as well as 1973's Wake of the Flood, 1976's Steal Your Face and 1981's Reckoning. Griffin remained a prolific talent well past the end of the psychedelic era, later working in underground comix, and in the early 1970s he became a devout Christian, a conversion which profoundly affected his subsequent work, which included an illustrated adaptation of the Book of John. His life ended on August 17, 1991, the victim of a fatal motorcycle accident; ironically, his last published work, which appeared in the San Francisco magazine The City, was a self-portrait depicting Griffin entering heaven's gates, pen and ink clutched firmly in hand.
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You can find the Gospel of John book that Rick illustrated on Amazon. I would put the link here for you but we don't sell anything. At Amazon you can see some of the illustrations from the book. The text content of the book is the teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel. A great gift indeed!
