Zigzag surf magazine

Zigzag surfing magazine was started in 1976 and inspired by a meeting with the publisher of a Hawaiian tabloid magazine named Backdoor.

The original team was Paul Naude, Mike Larmont and Doug MacDonald. They set up shop in the rooftop of Larmont’s surfboard factory, working nights while keeping their daytime jobs. Initially the magazine was tabloid-sized and released quarterly. In 1988 the magazine, struggling to make ends meet and with a full time staff of one, was sold.

Craig Sims and Rob van Wieringen, the new owners, teamed up until 1991. Sims soldiered on and in March 2007 Touchline Media bought Atoll Media. At the end of 2007 Sims passed the custodianship of the fourth oldest surfing magazine in the world to the Publisher/Editor partnership of John McCarthy and Will Bendix.

In 32 years the magazine has had just five editors and has released 187 issues.

External Links

* http://www.zigzag.co.za/