The Beauty & The Beast Tour article - January 2010 Skateboarder

This issue centered almost entirely around the 2009 Beauty & The Beast tour, which was the second of the three that Girl & Anti Hero did together. Below is the feature article documenting the trip and all of the other pieces in the magazine that featured riders from the tour, in order off how they appear in the magazine.

I loved watching those tour videos when they came out. Some of the best tours ever. This is also one of the two Skateboarders I have that got water damaged, so the pages are a bit crinkly and there's some glare I couldn't get rid of. I think it's kind of cool, though... gives the scan some personality... maybe.

Tony Trujillo on the cover.

Group photo

Cover backstory on the bottom of the Contents page.

The feature article.

Fun Photo Issue articles in Skateboarder

In addition to large photo features, the May 2007 and June 2008 issues of Skateboarder have some photographer-themed articles as well that are really fun to read. Here they are below:

July 9th, 2022 edit: I came across another 15 Things You Didn't Know About Skate Photographers article in the February/March 2012 issue as well, and figured it would be appropriate to include it with this post. It's at the bottom.

May 2007 Versus

May 2007 15 Things...
photo by Luke Ogden

June 2008 Versus

June 2008 Skate Anatomy

June 2008 15 Things...
photo by Griffin Collins

February/March 2012 15 Things...
photo by Dennis McGrath

And Another Thing, Skate Anatomy, Versus & 15 Things from the November 2009 Skateboarder

These monthly articles were always fun to read and one of the reasons why I enjoyed reading Skateboarder so much. Here are some from the November 2009 issue:

And Another Thing with Jerry Hsu

As told to Senrud
Photo by Mehring

Skate Anatomy with Silas Baxter-Neal

Versus: Mike Anderson vs. Bobby Worrest

15 Things You Didn't Know About Element

Plus here's a bonus Jerry Hsu ad from the back cover. No photo credit given