The Poochie Effect: A History of Adding Random Surf Scenes to Movies
Since the '60s, surfing has become a catch-all way to inject cool points into fiction, usually to disastrous results. But where did this trend actually start?
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Since the '60s, surfing has become a catch-all way to inject cool points into fiction, usually to disastrous results. But where did this trend actually start?
Sam Gross, whose outrageous, sometimes shocking and occasionally - by today's standards -...
In his work for The New Yorker and especially National Lampoon, he was unafraid to offend people. But his primary goal was to make them laugh.
He considered his work a form of doodling sociology and was especially interested in people who were irony deficient.
George Herriman’s cartoon revolutionized the genre and influenced Walt Disney, Jack Kerouac, Art Spiegelman and even pioneered the word ‘jazz’