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The name of this character was Hot Curl, and it was the creation of San Diegan beatnik artist Michael Dormer and his partner Lee Teacher. Hot Curl became one of the icons of the “Kustom Kulture” and Lowbrow Art movement centered around the surf and hot-rod counter culture of early 60s California, alongside Rick Griffin’s Murphy character ...
Hot Curl [1] is a cartoon character created in 1963 by Michael Dormer [2] and Lee Teacher. [3] 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]
Dormer’s Hot Curl was a surfboard totin’, beer swillin’ beach bum with blonde hair hanging down over his eyes and an outsized schnoz. From 1959 to 1962 he appeared regularly in the artist’s own Beat Generation zine, Scavenger , and in the comics section of the La Jolla Light .
Jun 11, 2024 · Mike Dormer was a Windansea surfer and the artist who first drew a cartoon strip that would one day morph into a statue called Hot Curl. The following is an excerpt from Chris Ahrens’...
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Sep 1, 2009 · In 1963, Dormer and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted Hot Curl, 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. The sculpture of a mop-haired, 6-foot tall, knobby-kneed surfer gazed out at the sea with a beer in his hand.
Sep 28, 2012 · The sculpture of a shaggy-haired, 6-foot-tall surfer gazed out at the sea, holding a beer. "Hot Curl" as he came to be known, quickly became a nationwide sensation, appearing in SurfToons comics and as a plastic model kit.
Jun 21, 2017 · His career as an artist took off in the 1960s, when he created Hot Curl, the mop-haired, knobby-kneed, pot bellied surfer who quickly became a nationwide sensation, appearing regularly in...
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