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Joe Smith
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Hi,
I’m looking to educate myself on Hal Foster’s body of work. A night of
Googlage didn’t turn up all that much, sadly. I’m wondering if there are
any Forum Foster Fans that would know of things like an
Omnibus/Artist Edition of his killer stuff.
I fondly remember my Dad, who bought me my first comic off the
newsstand (ASM144), and I reading the Sunday Comics every week.
We’d laugh at PEANUTS, giggle at BLONDIE, have fun with FAMILY
CIRCLE, etc...., but when we’d turn that final page and get to PRINCE
VALIANT, the reverence my Dad showed towards that amazing half
page of brilliance always made me take notice. I now know that John
Cullen Murphy was drawing the strip at that time!
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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

If you might ever want to 'meet the artist', I can recommend a Comics Journal (#102) with a great interview with Hal Foster. Plus various examples of his work being talked about.



The publisher of that magazine, Fantagraphics, has the best collected volumes of Prince Valiant, but they aren't cheap...

https://www.amazon.ca/Prince-Valiant-Volumes-1-3-Gift/dp/168 3960726

There are some criticisms of the coloring not being as true to the original newspaper editions on these however.

There's also a stand-alone book on Hal Foster with positive reviews...

https://www.amazon.ca/HAL-FOSTER-PB-Illustrators-Adventure/d p/1887591257

Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 24 November 2020 at 12:40pm
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Joe Smith
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Thank you, RJ!
That might be exactly what I’m looking for....the color is
inconsequential, as I’m more interested in his ink lines and how he got
them that way.
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Joe Smith
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I was Googling the artist, and not Prince Valiant. This is what I want
right here! ARTISTS EDITION

Edited by Joe Smith on 24 November 2020 at 12:55pm
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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Wow, yeah, that is beautiful! Glad you found it. :^)
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 01 December 2020 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Joe - a few days after seeing this post, I noticed this old book on my shelf.   It’s 200 pages, lots of hi res b&w images of Foster’s artwork.  Also, photos from his life, and an extensive biography.   

I don’t think I’ll read this book a second time.  I am happy to pass it on to you, if you are interested in in a permanent book in your hands.  Let me know if you are interested, and if not and you just wanted online images, that’s cool.  
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Joe Smith
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Posted: 01 December 2020 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

What a great offer, Peter! My Artist Edition is delivering
tomorrow, so, please accept my thanks, but, you should keep
it for someone else to have.
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Mario Ribeiro
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Posted: 02 December 2020 at 8:22am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

I love Foster to death. But I started reading him in B&W, as a kid, and that's still how I think about his work. (I hated seeing Val's lipstick in the Fantagraphics books.) So now I have most of it in B&W and in color.
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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 02 December 2020 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I included Foster in my comic lecture survey for a few years.  Even though his influence on the medium has largely waned in the last forty years or so, he was a good representative selection of both newspaper adventure strips and a particular style of comic art (what Dave Sim calls 'photorealism,' though I tend to think of it as naturalistic), which he was a master of.  The kids had zero response to his work, with the exception of one who couldn't work out why the horse was all black in one panel.  That really made me aware that the chiaroscuro that Foster deployed so well was something one has to learn to decode, to some degree.

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