Hot Curl[1] is a cartoon character created in 1963 by Michael Dormer[2] and Lee Teacher.
[3] In 1963, Dormer[4] and his friend, Lee Teacher, sculpted Hot Curl[5] 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 pot-bellied surf god quickly became a nationwide sensation appearing in SURFtoons comics and as a plastic model kit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
A smaller-scale model of Hot Curl was included in some issues of MPC's 1929 Ford pickup/woodie kit.
[7] Hot Curl is similar to Kustom Kulture and Lowbrow Art about surfing and hot-rods of 1960s California, like Rick Griffin’s Murphy[8] and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Rat Fink.