Hal Foster

Harold Rudolf Foster, born on August 16, 1892 and died on 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. Foster moved to the United States in 1921 and began an illustration career in Chicago, eventually becoming an American citizen. In 1928 he began one of the earliest adventure comic strips, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan, and in 1937 he created his signature strip, the weekly Prince Valiant, a fantasy adventure set in the Middle Ages.