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Sep 28, 2012 · Along with contemporaries like Rick Griffin, Dormer helped to depict the emerging counter culture scene in California during the 1960s. In 1963, he and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted a 400-pound concrete statue and installed it on the rocks near the surf shack at Windansea.
Hot Curl started life as the second character in a comic strip in Michael Dormer’s 1959 self-published ‘zine The Scavenger, a beatnik anthology of poetry, short essays, drawings and cartoons.
Territorial skirmishes in 1964 saw the statue decapitated, but Dormer continued on. He made drawings for copious surf advertisements and did regular illustrations for Surf Guide, Surftoons, Surfing Illustrated, and other publications.
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.
Sep 18, 2012 · In 1963, Dormer and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted Hot Curl,[1] a 400-pound (180 kg) concrete statue, and installed it on the rocks near the surf shack at Windansea Beach in La Jolla in San Diego, California.
In 1963, Dormer [4] and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted Hot Curl [5] a 400-pound concrete statue, and installed it on the rocks near the surf shack at La Jolla's famed Windansea Beach in San Diego, California. [6]
Jul 22, 2010 · OB resident Michael Dormer at is know among the surf community for his “Hot Curl” surf cartoons, and in the art community for his fine art (shows at Falling Sky Pottery in OB). He provided a night of stand-up comedy in his presentation... that…
