Hal Foster : Prince of Illustrators, Father of the Adventure Strip

by Brian M. Kane

• ISBN13: 9781887591256
• ISBN10: 1887591257
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Vanguard Productions

Summary

A comprehensive biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M. Kanexamines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20thentury. "Superman" was modelled after Foster's drawings of Tarzan, Flashordon's Alex Raymond borrowed compositions from "Prince Valiant", and manyrtists, including the famous contemporary Western painter James Bama, countoster among their greatest influences.;Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1892f a seafaring family, Hal naturally took to the sea. At the age of eight headdled a 12-foot plank across Halifax Harbor to the consternation of largeunard liners. In his youth he was a catalogue artist, a trapper, arofessional boxer, a gold prospector, and a hunter-guide in the unchartedorests of Canada. In 1921 with a wife and two children to support he peddledis one-speed bicycle 1000 miles across dirt and gravel roads from Winnipego Chicago to attend the Art Institute and later find permanent employment.;he young illustrator's work appeared on the covers of "Popular Mechanics"nd in hundreds of magazines for clients such as "Northwest Paper", "Jekle

Table of Contents

Hal from Halifax	7	(8)
Portaging Canada	15	(22)
Special gallery Companions in Adventure	27	(10)
Helen the Fair	37	(12)
Knight Errant	49	(12)
``We Are Ape''	61	(14)
In the Days of King Arthur	75	(14)
Father of the Adventure Strip	89	(24)
A Color Gallery	97	(16)
Hal Foster
The Bard of Avalon	113	(10)
Voice from Val-Hal-En	123	(18)
A Canadian Yankee in King Arthur's Court	141	(10)
The Spoils of War	151	(12)
Beyond Camelot	163	(8)
The Royal Family	171	(14)
Knights of the Drawing Table	185	(8)
Passing of the King	193	(9)
tributes A Knight to be Remembered	202