Tracks (magazine)

Tracks is a monthly Australian surf magazine, promoting itself as "the surfer's bible". It is published by Next Media.

It was established in October 1970 by Alby Falzon, starting as a kind of counter-culture tabloid, printed on cheap paper and produced on Queensland's Gold Coast. Since then it has grown to be a major surfing publication. Over the years its editors have included:

In the 1970s Tracks published a cartoon series about a surfing pig of steel, Captain Goodvibes, by Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards. Goodvibes became an icon of Australian surfing culture.

Notes

  1. ^ The wave game : an inside look at professional surfing /​ by Phil Jarratt. Broadway, N.S.W. : Soundtracks, 1977. ISBN 0959699007

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