[5] The Slap Magazine website still serves as a highly popular message board for skateboarding content and conversation.
[6][7] Dawes worked at Thrasher as a darkroom technician, developing film and printing for the magazine.
[8] The first issue, April 1992, featured Mike Carroll with a backside 50-50, photographed by Dawes.
[6] Slap magazine was for many years under the editorial stewardship of Mark Whiteley.
[9] Additional contributors to Slap magazine were: Joe Brook, Tim Butler, Brandy Faucette, John Trippe, Dave Schubert, and a long list of staff and other contributors.