Michael Wilmington's review of North Shore ran in the August 14, 1987 edition of the Los Angeles Times. * * * Off the sandy coast of Oahu, a gigantic wall of water comes barreling toward shore. Curled under the wave’s cap, crouching riders glide through a tunnel of whipping spume. That’s one of the main images of "North Shore" (citywide)—a rite-of-passage teen movie set in the Hawaiian surf m...
"Murphy and the Surfing Contest," by Rick Griffin. Part I ran in the Summer 1961 issue of Surfer, Part II ran in the Fall issue. * * * ...
Rick Griffin's two-page "Murphy" strip ran in the May 1969 issue of SURFER. * * * ...
Rick Griffin's two-page comic "Maui No Ka Oi" (Maui is Best) ran in the December 1971 issue of SURFER Magazine. * * * ...
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; he may have 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...