Hand drawn (acrylic/ink/colored pencil on board) full page advertisement for O’Neill wetsuits by Santa Barbara area artist Rick Sharp that ran in Surfer Magazine volume 16 number 1 in 1975.
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-B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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