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Harold Rudolf Foster, FRSA (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship and attention to detail.
Harold Foss "Hal" Foster (born August 13, 1955) is an American art critic and historian. He was educated at Princeton University , Columbia University , and the City University of New York . He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 1997 and has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1997.
Mar 10, 2016 · Describing Hal Foster as a critic is something of a misnomer. A distinguished professor and academic, he is one of the most important art historians living today. That being said, Foster’s commitment to writing that’s both critical and historical has defined his career.
Professor Foster teaches and publishes in the areas of modernist and contemporary art, architecture, and theory. He is a member of the School of Architecture and an associate member of the Department of German; in addition, he sits on the executive committee of the Program in Media & Modernity.
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, often simply called Prince Valiant, is an American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 4000 Sunday strips.
Hal Foster is the author, most recently, of The Art-Architecture Complex (Verso, 2011) and The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Hal Foster was one of the major artists of American newspaper comics, and one of the medium's great innovators. He was the first to adapt Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan of the Apes' into comic format (1929, 1931-1937), but is best known for his Arthurian saga 'Prince...
