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Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 29 August 2004 Location: United States Posts: 6597
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | 1
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4499
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | 2
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | 3
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | 4
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | 5
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Wow, yeah, that is beautiful! Glad you found it. :^)
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Peter Hicks Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1886
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Posted: 01 December 2020 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | 6
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 01 December 2020 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | 7
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 June 2016 Location: Brazil Posts: 474
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Posted: 02 December 2020 at 8:22am | IP Logged | 8
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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 Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 27 December 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3135
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Posted: 02 December 2020 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | 9
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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.
Edited by Dave Kopperman on 02 December 2020 at 4:56pm
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