TY - BOOK AU - Kane,Brian M. AU - Spurlock,J.David TI - Hal Foster, prince of illustrators: father of the adventure strip SN - 1887591257 (Paperback) AV - PN6727.H74NC1449.F67 K34 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Lebanon, New Jersey PB - Vanguard Productions KW - Foster, Harold, KW - Cartoonists KW - Canada KW - Biography KW - Illustrators KW - Biography. N1 - Hal from Halifax -- Portaging Canada -- Special gallery: Companions in Adventure -- Helen the Fair -- Knight Errant -- "We Ate Ape" -- In the Days of King Arthur -- Father of the Adventure Strip -- Hal Foster: A Color Gallery -- The Bard of Avalon -- Voice from Val-Hal-En -- A Canadian Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- The Spoils of War -- Beyond Camelot -- The Royal Family -- Knights of the Drawing Table -- Passing of the King -- Tributes: A Knight to be Remembered N2 - In the first comprehensive biography of Hal Foster, author Brian M. Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the twentieth century. Superman was modeled after Foster's drawings of Tarzan, Flash Gordon's Alex Raymond borrowed compositions from Prince Valiant and thousands of artists, including the famous contemporary Western painter James Bama, count Foster among their greatest influences ER -