Famous Like Me > Writer > F > Hal Foster
Profile of Hal Foster
on Famous Like Me |
| |
| Name: |
Hal Foster |
|
| |
|
| Also Know As: |
|
| |
|
| Date of Birth: |
18th August 1892 |
| |
|
| Place of Birth: |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| |
|
| Profession: |
Writer |
| |
|
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Harold ("Hal") Rudolph Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – July 25, 1982) created the comic strip Prince Valiant. He was a student at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After jobs as an illustrator, he became involved with Tarzan, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels. His impact on the comic was huge and is of great importance in the history of the field for his painstakingly realistic and exact drawings. After a while, he grew tired of adaptation and wished for something he had truly created himself.
William Randolph Hearst long wanted Foster to do a comic for his papers. Hearst was so impressed with Foster's pitch for Prince Valiant, he promised Foster the ownership of the strip if he would start the series, a very rare offer in those days.
Hal Foster (art critic) is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
External link
http://www.bpib.com/illustra2/foster.htm — illustrated biography
This content from
Wikipedia is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article Hal Foster
|
