"Harbor Improvement Just 'Pain in the Neck' to Riders of Surf; Ruins Sport Here," by Franklin Burke, ran in the August 9, 1935, edition of the Santa Ana Daily Register. This version has been slightly edited * * * "Paddle!" "They're humpin’ way out!" "Slide left!" "It's a feather!" Cries such as these, gleefully shouted In crude but expressive surf lingo, are heard no more at Corona De...
Julia Nuu's review for North Shore ran in the August 20, 1987 edition of the Buffalo News. * * * What do you get when you take the lush green North Shore of Hawaii, a dozen or so tan, muscular surfers, and one of the most hackneyed stories ever conceived? You get "North Shore," a movie that’s beautiful to look at but not so great to watch. Rick Kane (Matt Adler) wins the Arizona wavepool ch...
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,...