Tracks is a monthly Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n surf

Surfing

Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...

 magazine, promoting itself as "the surfer's bible". It is published by Next Media.

It was established in October 1970 by Alby Falzon

Alby Falzon

Albert "Alby" Falzon is an Australian surf filmmaker, photographer and publisher.He grew up in the beachside suburb Maroubra in Sydney. He did not begin surfing until age 14, when the family moved to the New South Wales Central Coast....

, starting as a kind of counter-culture tabloid, printed on cheap paper and produced on Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

's Gold Coast

Gold Coast, Queensland

Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

. Since then it has grown to be a major surfing publication. Over the years its editors have included:

• Alby Falzon
  Alby Falzon
  Albert "Alby" Falzon is an Australian surf filmmaker, photographer and publisher.He grew up in the beachside suburb Maroubra in Sydney. He did not begin surfing until age 14, when the family moved to the New South Wales Central Coast....
  
  
• Phil Jarratt
• Sean Doherty
• Luke Kennedy
  Luke Kennedy
  Luke Kennedy is an Australian performer best known for touring internationally with The Ten Tenors and performing the title role in Jesus Christ Superstar in various productions around the country.- History :...
  
   (present editor)

In the 1970s Tracks published a cartoon series about a surfing pig of steel, Captain Goodvibes

Captain Goodvibes

Captain Goodvibes, aka the Pig of Steel, was the creation of Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards and became an icon of Australian surfing culture in the 1970s....

, by Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards. Goodvibes became an icon of Australian surfing culture.