Hot Curl
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A cartoon character created in 1963 by Michael Dormer and Lee Teacher.
In 1963, Dormer and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted Hot Curl[1] 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. The pot-bellied surf god quickly became a nation-wide sensation appearing in SurfToons comics and as a plastic model kit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. In 1964, Hot Curl became a movie star, appearing in Muscle Beach Party[2].
Today, Hot Curl appears regularly in Surfer (magazine).
