H2O magazine

Eclectic surf art magazine founded in 1979 in Malibu, California, and published by Martin Sugarman, a former top-ranked surfer and photojournalist who once called himself "the John Cassavetes of the surf world."

Subtitled the "Magazine of Waterfront Culture," H2O was a slender, glossy black-and-white amalgam of interviews, poetry, fiction, softcore T&A, fine-art photography, surf history, and topical articles such as "Why Blacks Don't Surf," along with a small number of surf photos, mostly o...