Hal Foster
Harold Rudolf Foster, known as Hal Foster ( born August 16, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, † July 25, 1982 in Spring Hill, Florida), was one of the most famous comic book authors and illustrators in the United States. He invented the character of Prince Valiant (Prince Valiant ).
After studying at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, he worked as an illustrator. His first comics he drew in 1929 for the series Tarzan, a comic book series based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He introduced a new, accurate and detailed drawing style and shaped the development of the comics in the U.S. significantly. In 1937 he recorded the first pages of Prince Valiant. When he handed the character work on the series in 1971 at the age of 78 years to John Cullen Murphy ( to 1979, he created yet proposal sketches and wrote the story ), he had 1,788 pages Prince Valiant drawn.
Awards
- 2008: Sondermann Prize in the category Comic internationally for Prince Valiant