A Beautiful Pandemonium - The Surfers Journal
Perhaps Griffin’s best-known and beloved surf icon, Murphy adorned thousands of high school notebooks, surf-bomb rear windows, and the occasional Huey chopper treetopping through incoming VC fire in Vietnam.
Rick Griffin Designs - Official website of artist Rick Griffin
In his early teen years, Rick learned how to surf on the Pacific Coast of Southern California. He started drawing a cartoon surfer learning how to surf that he called “Murphy.” He was introduced to Greg Noll, a local surfboard shaper, who hired Rick to make posters for his surf shop.
Surf Art - Rick Griffin Designs
Gallery featuring Rick Griffin surf art including the iconic character “Murphy” and artwork for Surfer Magazine, Greg Noll, surf films, and many others.
Rick Griffin - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Born near Palos Verdes, Rick Griffin grew up in the surfing culture of southern California, which had a profound influence on his art. After high school, he worked on the staff of Surfer magazine and created the best-known surfing cartoon character of the time, Murphy.
Biography - Rick Griffin Designs
In June of 1962 Rick graduated from Palos Verdes High School and that summer his character “Murphy” made it out from the pages and onto the cover of Surfer Magazine. By the end of summer the following year, Rick was getting tired of his …
Rick Griffin - Wikipedia
Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, designing some of their best-known posters and album covers including Aoxomoxoa. His work within the surfing subculture included both film posters and his comic strip, Murphy. [3]
Murphy | Encyclopedia of Surfing
Short, blond, perpetually stoked cartoon surfer created in 1961 by 16-year-old California artist Rick Griffin. Murphy made his debut in the third issue of Surfer magazine. He was "the archetypal Everysurfer," as surf journalist Steve Barilotti wrote in 1988.
RICK GRIFFIN: WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION - Encyclopedia …
Oct 8, 2013 · In 1961, Griffin, a 17-year-old surfer and aspiring artist-cartoonist from Palos Verdes, penciled out a little bushy-blond wave-stoked grem he named “Murphy,” and got SURFER publisher John Severson to take a look.
Rick Griffin - Club of the Waves
Rick Griffin (1944-1991) is widely known in the surfing world as one of the original ‘surf artists’ — cited as a great influence by many artists. Surfing fans may recognise his iconic poster for John Severson’s surfing film, Pacific Vibrations, or his comic strip about a surfer named “Murphy”, pictured below on the cover of ‘The ...
A Beautiful Pandemonium: How Rick Griffin Became ... - The …
Steve Barilotti provides a biography of iconic surf artist Rick Griffin. This piece follows Rick from his days as a high school student contributing the Murphy comics to Surfer Magazine, to his eventual conversion to Christianity and illustrating the book of John.