Pro Arts (1967–1984) was a poster company founded in Ohio, United States that would create the top selling poster in the world, the Farrah Fawcett swimsuit poster. The poster sold over 12 million copies but the company couldn't survive and in a controversial series of events the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1981 and was liquidated in 1984. Small beginning Mike and Ted Trikilis dropped out of Kent State in 1967 opening a gallery and art-supply store called the Green Gas House. A visit by a Chicago poster vendor changed everything when the brothers bought 300 anti-war posters. The posters flew off the shelf and sensing an opportunity they moved to Medina changed the name to Pro Arts Inc and became Ohio's number one and only distributor of youth-oriented posters. They employed free lance student artists, either buying the posters outright or paying as little as $0.05 royalty fee per poster if the artists kept the rights to the art work. Poster company of the stars Ted Trikilis would call agents to get permission to use Hollywood stars likenesses by guaranteeing a $6,000 return on every signed contract. Sales had to be big to meet the high $6000 guarantee, but a poster of the Fonz sold more than a quarter-million copies which bumped Pro Arts in the big leagues. Swimsuit poster In April 1976, Ted was planting trees on his apple farm when one of his neighbor's kids mentioned that he and his friends were buying women's magazines to get pictures of a then-unknown blond beauty, Farrah Fawcett. Ted knew he had a good lead and quickly made the arrangements to get a shoot with Fawcett. Ted wanted a bikini shot, but Fawcett instead used a one-piece red swimsuit to hide a large scar on her stomach. The poster, with Fawcett's right nipple protruding visibly against the swimsuit material, was released around the same time as the TV series starring Fawcett Charlie's Angels aired. Having prominent nipples displayed for the first time on a poster in the US, it went on to sell millions of copies - unheard of in the poster business. This became known as the "Farrah Phenomenon" and it propelled Pro Arts into a multi-million-dollar company. Downfall The Farrah Phenomenon attracted new stars to Pro Arts who wanted to duplicate Farrah's success. This and a deal with K-mart to provide half a million posters inspired