Michael Dormer And The Legend Of Hot Curl Hardcover by Michael Dormer

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2017-08-29)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 200 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683960171
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

This collects the 1960s–1970s surf cartoons—and more—of an artist best known for his Shrimpenstein TV show.

Michael Dormer is synonymous with the California surf counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. This is the first-ever retrospective of the artist, culled from his own archives. It collects all of his character Hot Curl's comic strips for the magazine SurfToons, his designs for his TV show, a vast selection of his fine art, and other surprises.

About the Author

Michael Dormer was an artist, writer, and entrepreneur from San Diego, California. He spent most of his life in Ocean Beach, where his artwork remains ubiquitous in the area’s coffee houses, watering holes, and surf shacks. Highly influential in the Californian surf culture, he is best known for his comic Hot Curl and for creating the TV show Shrimpenstein.

Michael Powers was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up on the beaches of Southern California and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He is an attorney and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of the Pacific. Over the last 30 years, he has written about baseball, jazz, boxing, art history, sports law and politics, among other subjects.

Eric Reynolds is the VP/Associate Publisher of Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle, WA.

Brian Chidester is an art historian, author, documentarian, and journalist. Exhibitions he has curated include: One Day You’ll See: A History of Afrofuturism and Charles A.A. Dellschau and the Mythology of Flight. He is a contributor of articles and reviews for The American Prospect, The Atlantic, L.A. Weekly, Paste, and The Village Voice, and is the author of Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Era (Santa Monica Press). Chidester has also been a writer/researcher/producer of documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and Showtime, and is the director of the feature-length film As the Wind: The Enchanted Life of Eden Ahbez. He lives in New York City.

Domenic Priore is a writer and producer specializing in pop culture, sociology and music. He is the author of Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood, Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles’ Space Age Nautical Pleasure Pier (with Christopher Merritt), Shag: The Collected Works, Beatsville (with Martin Macintosh), and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson’s Lost Masterpiece. Domenic wrote the liner notes, sourced photographs and helped sequence the music for The Beach Boys: Smile Sessions box set (Capitol Records), which won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album. He also did the booklet for The Decline of Western Civilization Collection four-DVD box set and was the primary writer of the AMC documentaries Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years 1955-1970 (narrated by Ringo Starr) and Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (narrated by David Bowie). His bylines have appeared in Billboard, Sports Illustrated, Surfer and The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Induction Dinner program. He lives in Los Angeles.