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An Amazing Find

 

Life can sometimes utterly amaze you in the most abrupt and strangest of ways.  In this case, it happened to an unnamed friend of mine. 

One day his old landlord asked him if he wanted some surf magazines.  Having a few subscriptions already, he understandably said, “no thanks.”  Who needs more junk, right?  Well, his landlord being insistent, asked again a week later.  This time he said, “fine, I’ll take em.”  So the landlord brings over this huge box full of “surf magazines.”  My friend then looks inside the box and finds over 30 old SURFER Magazines dating as far back as 1961!!!  In mint condition!  They were just sitting in a box in his basement for all these years. (For those of you who don’t know, SURFER magazine started in 1960).  What a lucky bastard he is!

Alas, with some pulling and prying, he kindly let me borrow one.  Below is a photocopy I took from the Oct-Nov 1962 issue, vol 3, no.4.    I believe this is the 9th issue of SURFER magazine.  It’s a copy an early Rick Griffin cartoon.   The issue previous had the famous Murphy SURFER cover (he has that one too).

Ocean Dome Wave Pool

Too bad they closed it down.

The Best Worst Surf Cartoon

Check out this cartoon intro from a 1980 surf flick called Fantasea. 

In the world of Fantasea you shall surprisingly find out that: 

1.  Butterflies caw like crows.

2.  Surfers always sleep in a comfortable loincloth when in the jungle briar.

3.  Jungle sleep gives you enough strength to crack open a coconut with a gentle whip of the wrist.

4.  To date bushwomen who like to pick kumquats in the early morning light will require your best Elvis pick-up line.

5.  Parrots are sexy. 

4.  Waking-up requires constant mumbling. 

Blue Hawai’i

An old cartoon from the 1950′s describing Hawai’i and how blue it is or something.   

Slabs and Big-Butted Reindeer

I’m usually terrified of drawing animals.  Well, the non-human kind at least.  

Below was my first attempt at drawing reindeer, and they ended up looking somewhat like horses with large bulbous asses and mutated antlers contorting out of their heads. 

Surfing Comics

There’s really not a whole lotta surfing comic strips out there and I can’t really see too many people, besides surfers, actually reading them.  Surfing to outsiders is deemed somewhat of a mystery sport; one where unemployed pot-heads with limited vocabulary are trotting around the globe in some perpetual watery ritual.  Maybe, as surfers, it’s in our nature to really not give two hoots about anything else but the time, place and direction of the next swell, so writing or reading a comic strip is just a waste of precious time.   And that’s understandable.  As a grom, the only reading I ever did was under photo captions in SURFER mag.  Shakespeare?  Who’s that?  #@%& off! Gimme waves!

So good or bad, classic or crud, here’s a few others I’ve found:

1. Surfreal
2. Blue and Blonde
3. Surf Dudes
4. Born to Surf
5. Wilbur K
6. Reef Comics
7. Rick Griffin