Badass Meets Dumbass - The Girl/Chocolate Tour

This is the feature article for Girl & Chocolate's 2006 Badass Meets Dumbass Summer US tour, which also produced the memorable video with the same name. Words and photos by Ben Colen. It was published in the April 2007 issue of Skateboarder, which had Malto's Kansas City 360 flip on the cover. Lots of good content in this one, as expected. Out of all of the photos, though, the sequence of Koston's mattress Caballerial has always stuck with me, and I have tried skating on one at least one time because of it.

The cover

Sean Malto: The Wizard of KC

This Sean Malto interview from the March 2010 issue of Skateboarder is unique in that most of the skate photos aren't of the subject; they're of his skate friends. Malto even included a pull quote for each photo of his friends. Whether or not it was completely his idea or not, it's really cool that he used this as an opportunity to give his friends a moment in the spotlight. Intro and photos by Aaron Smith, and interview by Jaime Owens.

The Midwest: Wish You Were Here?

A cool photo feature of Midwest skateboarders skating their local spots, photographed and put together by Iowan Sam McGuire. Included in this is a sequence of Davis Torgerson's nollie frontside hurricane on a handrail in St. Paul, MN.

New Jack: Sean Malto

When this interview was published in the May 2007 issue of The Skateboard Mag, Mike Carroll was 32 and Rick Howard was 35. Sean Malto was 17.

I'm posting this on August 21, 2023, In about three weeks, Sean Malto will turn 34, which means that despite looking eternally young, he is the same age or older than Rick & Mike were when they put him on Girl. That's crazy to think about.

Anyways, below is his New Jack interview, published back when he wasn't a household name and one of the longest-tenured riders on the Girl Skateboards team. Words by Mike Munzenrider. Photos by Sam McGuire and Anthony Acosta.