MEDIA BLITZ
On August 17,
1991, Rick Griffin
died after being
thrown from his
Harley in Petaluma,
CA. Rick's style was
the cornerstone of
the 60s psychedelic
revolution. His
album covers and
posters for the
Grateful Dead,
Quicksilver Messen-
PROTEST
AGAINST
RISING
DE
CONFORMITY
What do you give a skate rat
who has the whole world at
his feet? Here is a scattered
sampling of potential gifts to
shove under the tree next to
that brand new deck safety
equipment and full-scale half-
pipe bowl/mini-ramp complex.
THE ART OF
MICKEY MOUSE
By Craig Yoe and
Janet Mora-Yoe
Hyperion, 114 Fifth Avenue,
ger Service and Jimi New York, NY 10011 ($35.00)
Hendrix were epic
masterpieces.
Besides Protest
(above) Griffin also
drew Murph the
Surf in Surfer Mag
caine and his work
in Tales From The
Tube (a comic book
insert in Surfer in
the early 70s) will
forever influence
the way we draw
waves. As Grateful
Dead publicist, Den-
nis McNally said,
"The world doesn't
have enough artists
to waste." No one
will ever take Rick
Griffin's place.
For the skater with a coffee
table, here's a book to im-
pross all the artsy farts. This
museum-quality volume sam
ples some of the best interpre-
tations of Mickey by Charles
Shultz, Andy Warhol, Keith
Haring. Walt Disney, Michael
Jackson, R. Crumb and a
truck full of others. This book
proves even rich and famous
artists can sometimes revert
back to the level of a kid with
crayons. What is it about
Mickey? John Updike says,
"It's all in the ears."
SURF CRAZED
COMICS
SCC, 542 N. El Camino Real,
San Clemente, CA 92672
($8 one-year subscription)
If someone you know has
water on the brain, take them
for a ride on waves of an irra-
diated future amongst cyborg
mutants and murderous surf
machines. Journey to the pits
of hell and catch surf so hot
it'll melt your skegs. Slash
royal cutbacks with Elvis on
an otherwise deserted day at
Trestles. These and other
colorful comic adventures
await the cats who read the
notes from the green room in
Surf Crazed Comics.
THE SURFINARY
By Trevor
Cralle
Ten Speed
Press, PO
Box 7123,
Berkeley, CA
94707
($19.95)
Attention
all hodads,
dweebs and
gremmies.
Here is a full-
on dictionary
of stokaboka
surf terms
that'll make
you seem like
a switchfoot
ripper dropping in on a
kamikaze ookei nami. The
only bummer about this over-
gunned collection of wave
words is the dated nature of
the terms "boomin," "bone-
less" and "hydro-ollie hop."
LOOMPANICS
CATALOG
PO. Box 1197, Port
Townsend, WA 98368 ($5.00)
Paranoid nightmares and
terrorist visions come true in
the books of the Loompanics
Lor
HOME
ORKSHO
library. Anarchist
theories, gov
ernment lies,
secrets,
surveillance,
espionage tech
niques, mind control,
brain surgery for the accused.
survivalism, and a million
paranoid ramblings reside
under the Loompanic umbrel-
la. These books are eye-open-
ers for blind
believers and
street lamps
for the lunatic
fringe. "If they
don't want peo
ple to do it.
we'll put it out."
says Editorial
Director Steve
O'Keefe. A few
titles from this
thick catalog:
Basement
Nukes, How To
Start Your Own
Country. How
To Kill Tanks,
The Top Se-
cret Registry of U.S. Govern
ment Radio Frequencies and
Anarchy In Action
AMOK FOURTH
DISPATCH
P.O. Box 861867, LA, CA
90086-1867 ($10.00 ppd)
If twisted ideas
are your game.
Amok has an in-
dispensable cata-
log. Their Fourth
Dispatch, a
"sourcebook of the
extremes of infor-
mation in print,"
contains over
3,000 book, video and cas-
sette titles. Fourth Dispatch is
an index of the intense con
taining forensic medical texts,
CIA torture manuals, biogra-
phies of serial killers and
porno queens. Satanist mani-
festoes, spellbooks, UFO ac-
counts, comix, true crime,
nudist colony guidebooks, riot
control technologies, traumatic
videos, a sampling of fiction,
and more. Amok has some
thing for everyone. If you own
this, you'll never
have to worry
about X-Mas
shopping again.
KAYO
SKATEBOARD
CARDS
Kayo, 1 Meadow
lands Plaza, Suite 1020, East
Rutherford, NJ 07073 (75)
Skateboard trading cards?
Come on, what's the deal?
Now there are at least two
companies on the bandwag-
on, but at press time we have
only seen prototypes from
Kayo, who are famous for
their boxing cards. These
cards are built well, no cheap
cardboard. As far as merchan-
dising, Kayo cards are official-
ly sanctioned by the N.S.A. If
you want trivia about your fa-
vorite skaters, it's all here. The
prototypes include Crum,
Miller, Underhill and a rare
goofy-foot Hosol. Coming in
early '92 to a 7-11 near you.
BART SIMPSON
VIDEO GAME
Nintendo
If you know any unfortunate
Nintendo junkies, the least
you can do is help fix them up
with quality merchandise like
the Bart Simpson video game.
Bart must save the world from
a group of crazy
CARTR
space mutants
and get his lively,
dopey family to
assist him in his
heavy quest. Their
help comes only
after he gets them
to believe his ex-
captionally wild
tale. This game has numerous
humorous inserts such as Bart
spray-painting everything in
sight and skating down the
sidewalk super-fast, doing big,
floating ollies (but, no flatland
variations). Overall, Bart goes
about his business being one
of society's more mischievous
kids, bugging people in shop-
ping malls and shooting sky-
rockets at the famous town
statue a typical young
suburbanite life-style. ■
THE IMMORTAL SKATE SHOE!
ZERO TWO
Ⓡ
Moveable Ollie Guards™
can be put anywhere on
the ZERO TWO shoe to
protect from grip-tape
and concrete wear!
Sold only in skate shops.
Info: (213) 824-7535
or Write to:
Dean Vegas Christal
969 Hilgard Ave. #911
West L.A., CA 90024
For sticker, send a Federal Reserve Note
with Washington's mug shot on it.
©1991 ZERO TWO
76 THRASHER MAGNE