Create and Destroy: John Lucero

[@natbrown95]

Lucero’s contribution to skateboarding is criminally underrated.

[@rianlewis2324]

100%

[@thinglizzy2718]

It’s funny to because Slappys are back in style the last few years, that’s all Lance and Lucero

[@porkpie8667]

Your not wrong .

[@CurbBlurbs]

Fact!

[@CurbBlurbs]

@@porkpie8667 you’re

[@princequestly2218]

I could listen to him tell stories for days. Lucero is rad on so many levels.

[@UE2012]

Me too. That first OG bars and the Grosso brat and the Kevin Staab decks were my all time favourites. Didn't get a real pro model til the next year. I got the santa cruz grosso and my bro got the lucero x2...the best of times. Thanks John -from New Zealand.

[@justinsparrey177]

Didn't realize just how many designs this guy put out... ICONIC!! 🤙

[@zrowe94]

This is awesome. I feel like the artists/designers don't get enough recognition in the industry. This is my dream job also, to design boards for a company,Or start my own company.

[@Ligeiro714]

Same dream bro

[@PanosSG55]

Do a shitload of graphics for companies you like and send em to them. If you don't get a satisfying answer, at least you have a lot of work to put in your portfolio. Connect, work and enjoy. Best of luck!

[@jacobkramer42]

They dont deserve any recognition. It's easy work.

[@peoplecallmepeechez]

If this is your dream job make sure you make connections in your local scene, at some point somebody is going to need an artist

[@armchairproductions]

This is absolute gold. Please make a 2 hour version.

[@scooterlafontaine5937]

I can distinctly remember the first time I saw the Lucero red cross sticker at a skate shop and all of my friends literally freaking out. Real skateboarding culture is about something being so rad that children actually flip out over stickers , board graphics. Lucero is not just a true icon, he is one of the few true keepers of the flame.

[@jake_villanueva]

This could’ve and probably should’ve been at least an hour longer

[@generalkenobi6869]

I love this series the artists behind skating are so great

[@Jimberley]

Fuck yeah Lucero, I skated vans park in early 2000’s and was always rocking Label boards and Grosso was there and came up to me and asked if I was getting boards, I sent him a tape and he sent me some boards. What a great day that was, Rest in Power Grosso! Thank you Lucero 🔥🔥🔥

[@found_at_midnight]

Lucero is a real treasure to the history of skateboarding. What an interesting dude!

[@maartenderyck1]

lucero should take over jeff's loveletters , please consider this john! would love too see it ! much love!

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

Can’t agree more thrasher u gotta do it

[@charloschalvan141]

Grosso forever! Thank you for all the fun and entertainment John. Label Kills!!!

[@morgangleave8518]

Wow. I'm learning so much about when I started skating... I just skated back in the 80s, and didn't know who ran/owned companies. Loving this series.

[@marcelboogaard3809]

Loved the Staab graphic. Never knew John done that one.

[@matthewjames206]

Right? I also had no idea he did Mike Smith's duck graphic. Iconic 🍻

[@felpinho2501]

Lucero is a true legend. One of the biggest inspirations for me as a Graphic Designer / illustrator

[@cai_bosch]

The best! Lucero should do a nine club. That would be so good

[@Nickolaswright]

My favorite graphic of all time is the Madrid Lucero Jester. John needs his own show where he discusses art, music and skating. I’m sure he has a ton of rad stories growing up in the center of skateboarding culture and history.

[@joeytuzz]

somehow this is getting me way more hyped to skate compared to videos full of skating !!

[@PrintsUnderground]

Thank you John.

[@Slappy5-0]

Love this series

[@WhuDhat]

In my lifetime I really hope I find passion like this man has

[@P1Brand]

Thanks Lucero! Super rad to see all this stuff.

[@danieldrkness7489]

didnt even know John did graphics!!! wow! so many iconic classic graphics!

[@EverythingsBeenDone]

Thank you for these! The inspiration is real!

[@jdzasta]

Yours too, Dustin. Your videos make me want to get on a bike everyday.

[@scottcheely7553]

I just gained a lot of respect for Lucero! Awesome contribution to skateboarding! The slappy will always be number 1!

[@ianfrag]

YEW!! Thank you to Thrasher and Lucero. This rips!!

[@artdudivin]

Hey John, i've ridden your board in 1988.. The deck with the red cross.. I did my first backside wall ride with it.. Great "souvenirs" : ;o)

[@RickKosickFilms]

All of the great skateboard artist are super humble and never talk about there work...

[@matthewrzeszutko5601]

When I was 17 Label Kills came out. Thank you for getting me hyped on Jason Adams again... such a rad company man!!!

[@randylawrence504]

Legendary skater and really underrated. Black label is sick AF.

[@ununseptium7961]

John is brilliant. He knew that his window as a skater was closing so he figured out other ways to do what he loves.

[@SkateboardCollecting]

Great episode. Loved seeing all of John's artwork / boards and hearing the stories.

[@Veyron9one6]

Great artist, rad skater. I love these kind of episodes that highlights OG skaters and the stories behind the graphics.

[@lowtidelumber3107]

Give us more Create and Destroy episodes! Lucero is a beast

[@-MMN-]

THANKS THRASHER FOR THESE SERIES!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@erikwilliman1515]

LUCERO LIVES!!!

[@casper2732]

This series is so inspiring!

[@albertoJeremiah]

The red cross lucero is one of my favorite graphics.

[@shanereaction1396]

Loved this! Thanks for all your efforts Lucero and Thrasher! Many hours reading your mag and going out and trying to do what we saw in the mags.... Shane-O Richmond, Ca.

[@element8137]

More of this Create and Destroy series please

[@SakosTechSpot]

Huge thanks for doing these documentary style videos. As a kid, I never really paid attention to who did what, but now that I'm older I have a huge appreciation for everyone involved with making skateboarding what it is today. I still have a lot of learning to do so keep em coming! 🙌

[@lomasland]

Thanks Lucero !

[@highonangeldust]

Great watch. John is the best!

[@jontymellmann9233]

what a bloody legend!! such amazing skating, drawings, everything. so much love - this was really beautiful!

[@nickdrivinby]

This is such a heart warming video. Thanks so much for sharing. All of you guys,the graphics, the skate companies were everything growing up. Hands down, best days of my life.

[@slurpedvision879]

As a skater who now owns a graphic design studio, I truly love this series! Thank you for bringing this to us TM!

[@karateced]

true legend, nice guy. Lucero deserves a lot of respect.

[@monkeywrenchdesignshop7856]

So awesome to listen to these stories and see these graphics. Skateboarding influenced me to become the designer I am today. Thanks for sharing this.

[@jacobkreidler9531]

Thank you for this. True gem for skate nerds

[@Braveliltoaster15]

I've been looking for that trick fromma past video he rolls off with. What a classic

[@jdzasta]

Just the best. John is my all time favorite “skateboard personality”. He always seemed like such a humble, regular cat that made skateboarding look like pure fun. Also, the Red Cross board is the best deck I ever rode. I had a couple, loved that model.

[@brizzyloop24]

Love this series, never stop. Mike Aho absolutely killing the music

[@pnga9725]

Beautiful little video, thanks

[@ZoltarSoulFunk]

Amazing video. Really enjoyed this peek into a vital part of skate culture and its history.

[@douglasgreen7125]

i went to a skate jam featuring lucero and grosso in 1987 in montclair cali!! i was 13 !! both of em signed my pink sims t-shirt!! i was hooked on skating from that point on! i just turned 48 this week!! i still have a brand new grosso pink deck with grosso independent trucks !! i will never change!!!!

[@erichanhauser3190]

He's an artist.

[@djilly75]

An amazing amount of history in his house

[@JuanDiaz-my7nr]

I love this stuff. Thanks for the upload Trasher Magazine

[@marz444]

Love this.

[@everycoLor_312]

I'm not an artist... 1:22 ... this is where I do most of my artwork ✌🏼🤣💥

[@pdxraves]

Lucero Is as cool as it gets. Period

[@linnsterlingcurebeliefinad1725]

John is a underatted hero. In middle school everyone had his board and neil blenders .be a cool person to meet some day

[@skylerbernal]

That was so awesome !!

[@OhanaFilms]

6:04 One of my first boards was that purple Madrid. It’s really comforting to see it again.

[@heathschmidt7516]

THANK YOU!!!

[@lilsprite869]

These are so wonderfully done

[@Nasaphox]

I love this series. I’m watching it with my son because he loves to draw and is actually getting pretty good at it. This is a great way for him to see a piece of what I love skateboarding. I’m gonna buy him a blank so he can make himself a pro model

[@ed_spaghetti]

Yah right he's not an artist. He's a FREAKING LEGEND!!!

[@galagajunkie]

Mind blown, he did the Hensley graphic

[@louistorres]

John was the first pro skater I ever met; it was at an ESA Contest at the Brooklyn Banks (maybe 1987) where he did some rolling tailslide, while holding up the nose and switching/ crossing his feet. Hahaha!! That day, I knew I would become a pro skater if THIS GUY is doing this nonsense. Haha! I took 4th place in that contest and the rest was NYC skateboarding history. John embodies the word skateboarding just as much as Tony Hawk, Mike McGill and Christian Hosoi. Cheers from New York, John! : )

[@VANDALISMUS]

WHO´S NEXT? LOVE THAT ♥

[@MegaAppl3]

This was really good, keep them coming.

[@graxjpg]

I just bought the backwards name/ cross deck, lucero is one of my favorites

[@brianstewart4394]

Hell yea man. Black label needs to come back hard. I have somehow never owned one but will be buying one next board

[@juanpablolabbe5823]

i was thinking the same... is still alive?

[@RithyFilms]

This was great! Lucero is the Best!

[@ratodeminas]

A true Legend!!! One the best influencies for me, ever!!!

[@ericriggsbee]

That move he does at the end has mad style.

[@dominickratliff6171]

Met John at a skate party for H Street, he was cool to chill with and I've always loved his approach to skating...his graphics were always dope

[@Donkeysj]

I've been in love with Black Label since day one....such an easy relationship. Thanks

[@76tharris]

Hail Lucero the greatest "creator" in the industry. 🔥

[@talalcockar1389]

I'd like to see more videos like this.

[@maxrayman]

Awesome, thanks for making this.

[@robinabrams6056]

I hope to have my art on boards someday. Dudes a true inspiration and legend MF 100

[@morganconklin8849]

You can do it, go to the skateboard manufacturers directly. It’s pretty painless actually

[@michaelmartinez8167]

I absolutely love this guy and his art. Soo modest and humble by him thinking of himself as Not an artist .. dude you r an ARTIST from me to you ijs

[@luisaugustobastos]

Keep up with good art work!!! Awesome graphics… I recently got the vulture curb deck… it’s nice and clean

[@elmercyperro]

Schmitt stix had the highest quality boards in that era.... Those were beautiful boards.

[@huh2495]

Yes they were Monty had some sickies

[@jdzasta]

They really were. They were hard to get where I lived, but they were top notch.

[@emanuelodumsjr.160]

Thanks. #awesome blast from the past!!!!

[@duzted]

Do one on the GOAT DON PENDLETON. MUCH RESPECT TO LUCERO. WHAT A LEGEND.

[@klass8359]

Keep doing create & destroy videos, is pure inspiration!!!!🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼⚡⚡⚡⚡

[@wuzzwellb764]

Please keep this segment coming thrasher . It’s too good 💥❤️🤘

[@fourthirtysl]

As a kid I wanted the OG Bars skateboard so bad. When I finally went to the skate shop, they had the X2 model out. That ended up being my very first skateboard. I was like 8 or 9 years old. I’m obsessed with that design. (OG Bars)

[@constancemerryweather525]

I remember seeing that Johnny Rotten in Thrasher back in the day and being pretty blown away!

[@jayare6592]

You left out his second Schmidt's graphic where the jester busted open the jail bars. That was my all time favorite. And his many Grosso graphics for Santa Cruz. All so dope.i had the white board with the red cross too . Loved it, never knew of the cease and desist .

[@Heat5094]

Talk about a trip down memory lane...that Schitt Stix Lucero deck is so iconic.

[@jackbelmont]

A great guest to bring on this segment

[@rafaeldantas4331]

Yeah man, do your thing, is dope

[@miked7374]

Thanks for the education Lucero, had no idea you were creating so many designs on decks! Really like Black Label and still have it in my garage @ 50. I had lines @ Burnside on that deck and will be with me forever. Great video, THX!

[@hangtime540yo]

My first real board. Lucero rips!!

[@allenmeangreenoliver767]

❤ Grosso forever. Thanks John Lucero... legends!

[@danmoynihancartoons]

Wish he had talked about the elephant holding the flower! I thought that was so cool! Lucero was one of my faves in the 80s. I could easily watch a much longer video of him talking about this stuff.