Rick Griffin

'Rick Griffin and I would meet at Torrance Beach to surf. He would tell me stories about working with John Severson on his Murphy Cartoon Strips for Surfer magazine. Rick would draw the cartoons and John would write the stories for him. As the weekends passed and I continued working at Northrop I decided that I could generate a surfing magazine out of my bedroom studio in the apartment and use the printer down the street to publish it.'