Park's drawings for the group Dancing Food so impressed Frank Zappa that he invited the artist to design the cover to the next Mothers of Invention record, 1970's Weasels Ripped My Flesh. The resulting artwork -- depicting a man's face torn apart by an electric hand-held weasel -- was the subject of great controversy, and the Mothers' label, Warner Bros., initially refused to release it; even after the label consented, there were problems with the printer, whose assistant refused to even handle Park's painting. Still, his most fruitful collaboration was with Little Feat, with whom he first teamed in 1972 for the album Sailin' Shoes after meeting frontman Lowell George while hitchhiking. Park's cover -- depicting an anthropomorphic cake with a slice missing between her legs -- remains one of the best-known jacket designs of its era, and in 1991 was named among the 100 best album covers in rock history by Rolling Stone.
Park's relationship with Little Feat continued over the course of successive albums including 1973's Dixie Chicken and 1981's Hoy-Hoy! In addition to painting the jacket for Little Feat frontman Lowell George's lone solo LP, 1979's Thanks I'll Eat It Here, he also designed covers for acts including David Bowie (the 1973 collection Images) and Dr. John (1978's City Lights). Park also created countless advertisements for area radio stations, and contributed to Robert Crumb's notorious -Zap comix. Subsequent projects included a series of covers for a Japanese media magazine, animation for a commercial promoting solar power, and a collection of paintings of erotic ducks inspired by the classic pinup art of the 1940s. Park died on September 1, 1993; three years later, Little Feat released the album Live from Neon Park in his honor. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi