Surfer was an American monthly periodical focused on surfing and surf culture, founded in 1962 by noted surfer, writer, photographer, artist and humorist John Severson (1933–2017). The magazine folded in 2020. Surfer began as a quarterly publication, then a bi-monthly, subsequently becoming a monthly. When Severson sold Surfer in the late 1960s to For Better Living, the magazine had around 100,000 active world-wide subscribers. The magazine's last editor-in-chief was Todd Prodanovich and its photo editor was Grant Ellis.