“There isn’t a surf artist that hasn’t been influenced by Rick. We all emulated his waves when we would draw. I can’t state enough how amazing and what an influence he was.” Griffin ...

Then California artist Rick Griffin, while making the poster for ... held out as the key to the entire waves-and-babes beach fantasy, is a glowing bar of surf wax. The poster became a surf-world ...

If you only saw Griffin and Crosby Colapinto surfing on the North Shore of Oahu, you’d never guess they come from a place ...