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Original Comic Art titled Sanjulian Prince Valiant painting, located in Ted's Prince Valiant Comic Art Gallery (470108)

The pictures in comic strips today have become less ambitious and imaginative. Prince Valiant, 1942 The strips which first established the greatness of the medium had a strong visual character. Today the drawings have become simpler and more basic, even as the words have become more adult and sophisticated. You'll find no images in comic strips today like the grand images from Hal Foster's Prince Valiant: You'll find no powerful chiaroscuro drawings such as these from Milton Caniff's Terry…

Arthur and Launcelot. Art and text: Hal Foster (from page 504, October 6, 1946). Source: Prince Valiant (Vol. 5): 1945-1946 – Hal Foster (Fantagraphics Books, 2012).

After nearly six years drawing Sunday Tarzan pages, Hal Foster grew tired of doing someone’s else's character, and following someone else's script. So he created a character of his own, called at first called Derek, Son of Thane, and later Prince Arn. But by the time the strip premiered on Feb 13, 1937. a savvy King Features exec changed the name to Prince Valiant. This new reprint series from Fantagraphics is a new opportunity to read the strip from the beginning, and hopefully follow it at…

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Original Comic Art titled Wyman, MC -- Prince Valiant and Aleta, located in Rob's Prince Valiant Art Comic Art Gallery (1365600)