This three-page cartoon was published in Tales From Tube, a 20-page comic book that first appeared as an insert in a 1972 issue of SURFER Magazine. Griffin's strip actually is untitled; it may be that he intended it to be "Owooo!" as that exclamation appeared on page one where a title should be—although it seems more likely that the word is there as a stand-in for raucous surf-movie crowd noise. ...
Rick Griffin's "How Surfing Got Started" was published in the 1965 debut issue of Surftoons magazine. * * * ...
Rick Griffin's "West Coast Story," a spoof on West Side Story, ran in the 1964 issue of SURFER Toons magazine. * * * ...
Fred Van Dyke's profile on Joey Buran ran in the June 1979 issue of SURFER. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Joey is 17, from Carlsbad, California. He’s surfed since 1973, and created quite a sensation this last winter when he placed in the finals of the Pipeline Masters, no mean feat. One of California’s fastest rising young stars and at the forefront of the new breed of surfers,...
Drew Kampion's profile on Margo Godfrey ran in the June 1979 issue of Surfing magazine. This version has been slightly edited. * * * She's been the number-one woman surfer for so long now that most of us cannot remember when she wasn't. She was the 15-year-old who deposed Joyce Hoffman in 1968, both on the AAAA circuit in California and in the World Contest in Puerto Rico. She was close in 19...
Michael Tomson covered the four-event 1979 Japan leg of the WCT for Surfing magazine. The article ran in the October issue. This version has been lightly edited. * * * It was Sunday, May 12, at Tsushido Beach in Shonan, Japan, and the T-shirt in front of me had five names already scrawled on it in heavy black marker pen: Mark Richards, Shaun, Michael Ho . . . all surfers he had seen in Free R...
Without much effort, we could bang out a list of 10 or 20 moments, some of them decades apart, each with a claim to being the point where surfing finally and forever crossed over from cool to not-cool. Which claim wins? Any of them, all of them, or none, depending on where your head's at, as we used to say in the '60s—back when surfing was, maybe, still cool. At the moment, my top-of-the-ballot ...
"Jack is Nimble, Jack is Quick," uncredited, ran in the April 1970 issue of Petersen's Surfing magazine. Dunn was 13 years old. This version has been lightly edited. * * * Alright . . . . At Honolua Bay, Jackie Dunn rides as well as the seasoned pros. Some say he’s as good as Jeff Hakmanl was a decade ago when he was blowing minds at Sunset. Jackie, a rail-thin goofy footer who wears his trun...
This advertisement ran in an unknown newspaper—possibly the Long Beach Press-Telegram or the Balboa Times—on August 4, 1928. For ease of reading, the text in full is presented below, the ad itself is seen at the bottom of the page * * * AN INVITATION TO YOU OF "ORANGE COUNTY" SPEND THE DAY WITH US AT THE "CORONA DEL MAR BEACHES" ON EAST SIDE OF NEWPORT BAY BRING YOUR PICNIC BASKETS—PLENTY O...
Midget Farrelly's article on the Windansea Surf Club's recent visit to Australia ran in the December 10, 1967, issue of the Sydney Morning Herald. The American surfers had arrived in Sydney equipped with 9' 6" noseriders, only to find that the local surfers, with Farrelly and Bob McTavish leading the way, had recently begun riding smaller, lighter, more performance-oriented boards. This was the mo...