{"id":48054,"date":"2015-03-06T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48054"},"modified":"2015-03-06T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T20:08:02","slug":"rip-kurt-mellow-cat-ledterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48054","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Kurt &#8220;Mellow Cat&#8221; Ledterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kl.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kl.jpg','popup','width=1100,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kl-tm.jpg\" height=\"195\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kl\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We knew him best from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedrichards.net\/03_cartoons_02_mcat_01.php\">Ted Richards<\/a><\/strong> serialized comic <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedrichards.net\/03_cartoons_02_mcat_01.php\">Mellow Cat <\/a><\/em><\/strong>which appeared in <strong><em>Skateboarder Magazine<\/em><\/strong> from 1978 to 1981, but those who knew <strong>Kurt Ledterman<\/strong> as the editor at <strong><em>Surfer Magazine<\/em><\/strong> (and brains behind <strong><em>Skateboarder<\/em><\/strong>) remember a charming, kind, intelligent man, according to a remembrance from legendary photographer <strong>Jeff Devine<\/strong> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/remembering-kurt-mellow-cat-ledterman\/\">Surfermag.com<\/a><\/strong>. Ledterman was 69.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He treated all contributors during his reign as an editor at SURFER\u2014and also as an integral part of Skateboarder\u2014with a politeness that many still remember. He loved jazz and obscure rock. He would formally invite you to drive him up the hill to his house on Soledad Mountain to enjoy an obscure background-drumming lick on the latest T. Rex album, piped through his parents\u2019 stereo. Over and over. His mom described his informal group of musician friends as, \u201cbetter than a barking dog.\u201d . . . As editor at SURFER, he filled and stylized the magazine with his verbal accounts and captions. Publisher <strong>Steve Pezman<\/strong> once called him the soul of the magazine. \u201cKurt\u2019s stretch at SURFER and Skateboarder would become an indelible part of the lore of both magazines,\u201d he says. Surfers from Malibu to San Diego knew and loved him. Seeing him actually surf only added to the respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know that Ledterman&#8217;s contributions to <em>Skateboarder<\/em> created delight in the minds of young readers and inspired them to find more in the magazines than simply photos and stories. Our thoughts are with Kurt&#8217;s family and friends. Radical-mon. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfermag.com\/features\/remembering-kurt-mellow-cat-ledterman\/\">Surfer Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew him best from Ted Richards serialized comic Mellow Cat which appeared in Skateboarder Magazine from 1978 to 1981, but those who knew Kurt Ledterman as the editor at Surfer Magazine (and brains behind Skateboarder) remember a charming, kind, intelligent man, according to a remembrance from legendary photographer Jeff Devine on Surfermag.com. Ledterman was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48058,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48054\/revisions\/48058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}