MICHAEL DORMER Watercolor MIDDLE AMERICA GET TOGETHER VINT 74 POP ART CREATOR OF SURFTOONS COMICS HOT CURL Start Price USD 100.00 Current Price USD 100.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, July 04, 2008 End Time Friday, July 11, 2008 Location Utopia Planetia See more about 'MICHAEL DORMER Watercolor MIDDLE AMERICA GET TOGETHER ' Description Just a small sampling of borrowed  info on the web--Michael Dormer was born in Hollywood, California in 1935 into a family of writers and musicians.Dormer involvement with art as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist for a number of national men's magazines ranging from Esquire to girlie magazines in the early 40's and 50's.Associating himself during the turbulent 1950s with socially and politically active, "try anything" creative giants like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, and Jack Kerouac, stimulated the young artist into a flurry of productive activity in the 50's as well..In 1963, Dormer and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted Hot Curl 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. Today, Hot Curl appears regularly in Surfer (magazine). In 1964, Dormer’s artwork was featured in the opening credits of Muscle Beach Party, which featured the first film appearance of Hot Curl and “Little” Stevie Wonder. He also doubled as a talent scout for that film and subsequent surf films, recruiting actual surfers and surfer girls off the beaches of La Jolla to serve as extras.   In 1967 Dormer and Teacher created and launched Shrimpenstein, an off-beat children’s television show which aired live weekdays on Channel 9 in Los Angeles. The program, which featured a miniature Frankenstein monster, created when his creator, Dr. Von Schtick, accidentally dropped a bag of jelly beans in his monster machine. The wacky adventures and double entendres of the little monster and his eccentric pals enchanted children of all ages, including Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack. Please visit Mr. Dormer's website by the same name for some great information and the art work chronological gallery.This piece comes matted to a large board measuring 16"x16".The actual art is a 8"x10.75" watercolor signed and dated 1974.Overall the art is in decent shape but does have some light scattered age spotting/foxing about the background white.The back shows the title  as well.I have cropped the info to the front of the pic for display as well as the signature.  Flat $10.00 for s&h U.S. via USPS - Canada is 17.00.All other countries 20.00. Thanks! Place a Bid!