Hal Foster

Canadian-American illustrator (1892–1982).

Harold Rudolf Foster (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship and attention to detail.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Foster moved to the United States in 1921, and began his illustration career in Chicago, eventually becoming an American citizen. In 1928, he began one of the earliest adventure comic strips, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan. In 1937, he created his signature strip, the weekly Prince Valiant, a fantasy adventure set in the Middle Ages. The strip featured Foster's dexterous, detailed artwork; Foster eschewed word balloons, preferring to have narration and dialogue in captions.

From Hal Foster on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism
2004 · Thames & Hudson · Paperback · 704 pages · 2 editions
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Brutal aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
2020 · Princeton University Press · Hardcover · 286 pages · 2 editions
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David Smith: the forgings
2014 · Rizzoli · Hardcover · 92 pages · 2 editions
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Fail better: reckonings with artists and critics
2025 · The MIT Press · eBook · 485 pages · 2 editions
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Prince Valiant
2009 · Fantagraphics Books Inc · Hardcover · 2 editions
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Recodings: art, spectacle, cultural politics
1985 · Bay Press · Hardcover · 243 pages · 2 editions
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The Adventures of Gawain
1999 · Fantagraphics Books · Paperback · 48 pages · 2 editions
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The first Pop age: painting and subjectivity in the art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha
2012 · Princeton University Press · Hardcover · 337 pages · 2 editions
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What comes after farce? Art and criticism at a time of debacle
2020 · Verso · Hardcover · 205 pages · 2 editions
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A Joust for Aleta
1987 · Fantagraphics Books · Paperback · 48 pages · 1 edition
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Arn's Trip to Thule
2001 · Fantagraphics Books · Paperback · 48 pages · 1 edition
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Art and subjecthood: the return of the human figure in semiocapitalism
2011 · Sternberg Press · Paperback · 98 pages · 1 edition
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