Any original member of Big Brother is, in an abstract sense, linked to Robert Crumb via the Cheap Thrills album cover. The undergrounds might not have flourished without printing cooperatives and the head shop distribution system established by rock poster entrepreneurs. Edgar Winter's gonna be at the Poconos. It wasn't long ago that he was suing the creative team of a DC comic for defamation over being portrayed as an albino ghoul. I'm fairly certain that they once used Frazetta's Death Dealer on an album cover.
Comics are to music as tattoos are to biker chicks.
Too Young to Die . The instances of comics artists doing single illustrations for covers are as common as dirt. When it comes to inspiration, comics artists have frequently been upfront about the energy they get from spinning a big beat or a spacey excursion. I remember an artists profile feature from a fanzine in the early to mid-'70s. At the time, fantasy art was God, in a post-psychedelic sense.