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Hal Rudolf Foster

Hal Rudolf Foster (1892 - 1982) was active/lived in Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Nova Scotia / Canada.  Hal Foster is known for "Prince Valiant" comic strip, drawing.

Hal Foster was conspicuously talented and greatly influential.  He drew two of the best-looking adventure strips in comics, Tarzan and Prince Valiant.  He was active in the field from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, and during that half-century reached a wide audience and influenced numerous younger artists, including Alex Raymond and Frank Frazetta.

Harold Rudolf Foster was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  The family moved to Winnipeg when he was still in his teens.  An outdoorsman, he went fur trapping as a teenager. After a variety of short-lived jobs, Foster decided to try to make some money with his knack for drawing; he landed a seasonal job illustrating the catalog of the Hudson Bay Company in Winnipeg. By 1921, he had made up his mind to go to the United States for formal art training. He spent 14 days bicycling from Winnipeg to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.  During the 1920s,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6877 characters.]  Artist bio

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