Prince Valiant Volume 6 : 1947-1948

Informationen zum Autor Hal Foster (1892-1982) created Prince Valiant in 1937. Though remaining involved with the strip until his death in 1982, Foster handed the bulk of the scripting and art chores over to his longtime assistant, John Cullen Murphy, in 1971. Klappentext Prince Valiant and Aleta travel to Canada, where their child is born, in this Legends-of-the-Roundtable-inspired strip. Zusammenfassung Hal Foster's masterpiece of adventure enters its second decade as Valiantand Aleta journey to "The New World" a 16-month epic that allows Foster to drawsome of his spectacular native Canadian backgrounds! and during which Aletagives birth to Arn and acquires her Indian nurse! Tillicum. Most of the rest ofthe book is taken up with the action-packed five-month sequence "The Mad King"during which Val! back at Camelot! confronts the evil! fat little King Tourienof Cornwall. This volume will be rounded off with an essay by Foster scholarBrian M. Kane (The Prince Valiant Companion) discussing Foster's depiction of"Indians" as it relates to other interpretations of the times! accompanied byvarious graphic goodies such as a previously unpublished camping cartoon byFoster from circa 1915! some of Foster's Mountie paintings! Foster's own map ofVal's voyage to/from the New World! and more rare photos and art. As always!this volume is shot directly from Foster's personal collection of syndicateproofs! their glorious colors restored to create an unprecedentedly sumptuousreading experience.

Product details

• Authors: Hal Foster, Harold R. Foster, Foster Hal, Hal Foster
• Assisted by: P. Craig Russell (Illustration), Russell P. Craig (Illustration)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 15
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2012
• EAN: 9781606995884
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-588-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 266 mm x 365 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Prince Valiant
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Graphic Novels, HUMOR / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Anthologies, Graphic novel & Comic book: types