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Made for Skate

The diffusion of skateboarding into the popular culture as a fashion trend always tweaked me but blue jeans and t-shirts were popularized by poseurs trying to look proletarian. Any thoughtless aping of an idea is to be despised. That said, I will admit to fascination with all aspects of the history of skateboarding. This looks […]

Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards volume 4

New Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards collection

I finally finished the fourth volume of Hopeless Old Men On Skateboards. This one features comics 301-400 (which originally appeared between November 19, 2007 – April 25, 2008). It’s available as a full-color ($29.45 plus shipping) or the econo black and white book with a color cover ($9.97 plus shipping). It is also available as […]

Hopeless Old Men on Skateboards Volume 2

Just finished collecting the second hundred strips which you can order here

Reading is FUNdamental

Some amusing covers from skateboard-themed books at Amazon. I notice one of them in the upsell section below the thing I was looking at and followed the breadcrumbs to a veritable cornucopia of young adult print-based communications.

Odds and ends in print

Skate Daily noticed that although Rick McCrank is active in Peta print ads and product giveaways, he’s still got a suede shoe model, unlike another Peta collaborator, Ed Templeton. Also in this month’s Print Magazine is a half a page on design variations in Nick Hornby’s book Slam, the one that features a protagonist that […]

Faces of Skateboarding

Faces of Skateboarding was site of the week at Skate Daily last week. Looks like a good book of black and white photos by Daniel MÃ¥nsson. There are short videos on the website including one of Chris Miller but he pretty much just says he likes the photo. Look at the various sections of the […]

Young Adults and skateboarding. So hot.

Eww.. gross. Get your mind out of the gutter. Joining Blake Nelson’s Paranoid Park is Nick Hornby’s Slam. You might recognize Nick Hornby as the writer whose books get made into good movies like High Fidelity. Slam’s protagonist is skateboarding obsessed and regularly holds imaginary conversations with Tony Hawk who answers in not always relevant […]

Cool, yet disposable

Sean Cliver has a short interview over at Cool Hunting that is focused on his book Disposable. At the time he gave the interview he had no idea where and when it would show up. I’ve never really trolled Cool Hunting, but it seems like a site for people suffering from really short attention spans, […]

Psst! Hey kid, wanna go pro?

Want to turn into a professional skateboarder like Ryan Sheckler? Who doesn’t? Now you can avoid all the “paying your dues” BS and get the inside scoop in the Go Pro Book from the good folks at Skateboarderpro.com. It covers such topics as: How do you become a professional skateboarder? How do you get sponsored? […]