The Little Annie Fanny cartoon strip, written and created by Mad magazine editor and cofounder Harvey Kurtzman, was a Playboy staple from 1962 to 1988. "The Surfers" was illustrated by Will Elder, Frank Frazetta, and Jack Davis, and ran in the July 1965 issue. Some history of the strip from the frazettagirls.com website: "In order to secure the job, Frazetta had to try out for Kurtzman & Elder to...
Rose Apadoca Jones' article on Shane Dorian ran in the April 30, 1998, issue of the Los Angeles Times. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Abandon all preconceptions of what constitutes surfer style. Versace lambskin boot-cut pants and an ankle-length Gucci peacoat might fit better on a Manhattan boulevard than a Hawaiian beach. But to pro surfer Shane Dorian, the designer togs are as c...
In 2017, not long after I posted a History of Surfing chapter titled “Surf Fashion, Lightly Salted,” Davis Jones interviewed me for a short SURFER Magazine feature. This version has been slightly edited. * * * JONES: In Justin Housman’s 2015 piece on surf fashion, he writes that, really, fashion can’t ever be wrong. He uses a Kanye West quote: “I believe everyone is a fashion insider because it ...
This uncredited article was written by Rio surfer and photojournalist Tito Rosemberg, along with Johnny Hansen, and was published in the January 1968 issue of SURFER. * * * What happens when a carioca takes vira vaca at Baixio? If you’ve ever been to Rio—the meaning is simple: a local Copacabana Beach surfer has taken a wipeout (literally translated to "rolling the cow") at Baixio, a break note...
Tito Rosemberg is best known as a hardcore Land Rover-loving surf adventurer. He has visited over 100 countries, lived and worked in many of them, and surfed throughout. Before all that, however, Rosemberg was one of Brazil's original hardcore carioca surfers, spending his days on the beach at Arpoador, and his nights in the homes, clubs and restaurants of nearby Ipanema and Copacabana, at a time ...
Wayfaring Australian surfer Peter Troy has often been cited as the person who introduced surfing to Brazil, in 1964. A SURFER profile on Troy, for example, tells the story as follows: "While in Rio, [Troy] met the son of a French ambassador who had been given a surfboard but couldn't ride it. As he strolled down the beach at Copacabana, Troy saw the familiar shape. Using sign language, Troy borrow...
This installment of the Naughton-Peterson travel articles took place mainly in Morocco and Western Sahara, and ran in the July 1975 issue of SURFER. This version has been slightly edited. * * * "So long. Vicky!" “Goodbye. Fela!” "Oh . . . uh . . . our addresses? Yeah, sure! You have a pen?" And so we exchanged addresses with promises to write. The final gesture of a farewell with two lovely y...
“Why Don’t Jews Surf?” ran in the Spring 1980 issue of H2O magazine, and was written by A. M. Strand, which is almost certainly a pseudonym for H2O publisher-editor and former top-ranked California surfer Marty Sugarman. An editor’s note advises the reader to “take this article with a grain of sand,” which doesn’t mean the piece is full satire, or anywhere close. It reads to me like Sugarman, who ...
Sarah Smith's LA Times profile on Brad Gerlach ran on August 29, 1986. The full title is "Surfer Gerlach has a Certain Style: Flamboyance, Personality Set Him Apart on Pro Tour." This version has been slightly edited. * * * When professional surfer Brad Gerlach was 14 months old, his father threw him off the high dive into a swimming pool. When Joe Gerlach plunged in, he found his son paddling u...
Mick Mock's profile on Sydney surf entrepreneur Shane Stedman ran in the Winter 1999 issue of Deep magazine. This version has been slightly edited. * * * His life is a strand pulled through three decades of Sydney surfing summers: from a 1960s tin-shed surfboard factory, to popout boards and Ugg boots, to a surf reporter's voice on a car radio as the sun burns away the morning haze. For many of ...