Hal Foster Prince of Illustrators Father of the Adventure Strip

9781887591256

1887591257

A comprehensive biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M. Kanexamines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20thentury. "Superman" was modelled after Foster's drawings of Tarzan, Flashordon's Alex Raymond borrowed compositions from "Prince Valiant", and manyrtists, including the famous contemporary Western painter James Bama, countoster among their greatest influences.;Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1892f a seafaring family, Hal naturally took to the sea. At the age of eight headdled a 12-foot plank across Halifax Harbor to the consternation of largeunard liners. In his youth he was a catalogue artist, a trapper, arofessional boxer, a gold prospector, and a hunter-guide in the unchartedorests of Canada. In 1921 with a wife and two children to support he peddledis one-speed bicycle 1000 miles across dirt and gravel roads from Winnipego Chicago to attend the Art Institute and later find permanent employment.;he young illustrator's work appeared on the covers of "Popular Mechanics"nd in hundreds of magazines for clients such as "Northwest Paper", "Jekle