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Volume 2386
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 GALLERY IV
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As a small boy, I used to hurry downstairs every Sunday morning to spread out the Roto Gravure section on our floor to pore over the latest Prince Valiant comic strip adventure.  I was too young to read the story but the illustrations said it all.  Brave Knights, ferocious Vikings and plenty of sorcery.  My father was a helper on a beer truck and my mom scrubbed the floors of a local restaurant.  None of the parents in my neighborhood had jobs that were much better, so I was mesmerized by the fact that somewhere in the world a man was being paid to tell stories with his beautiful illustrations.  That was for me!  A couple of dozen years ago I picked up a book at a flea market for about three bucks called Prince Valiant.  It was a reprint of the first three years of the Prince Valiant saga by Hal Foster.

About a half dozen years ago or so I decided to try my hand at illustrating Foster's masterpiece with my own visions using his own text, starting from the beginning.  He had started out doing a full twelve panels per page.  In those days, he actually got a whole page to display his strip.  I based my experiment on today's page layout, which would only allow for six panels, so the first two week installments were divided into four weeks.  That's as far as I took it but I think the result was pretty good.  I even attempted to keep a Hal Foster "look" to my own work.
 

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GALLERY IV: ERBzine 2386
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