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[@vaughngaminghd]

"…and by the time he died at the age of 90 in 1982, he no longer even remembered the name Prince Valiant." That one really got me Pete. Beautiful job.

[@TheMikester307]

But a lot of us will always remember Hal Foster and the Good Prince.

[@petebeard]

Hello and that struck me as particularly sad too.

[@53Peterbilt]

Heavens, could you imagine not being able to remember the name of a character that you spent over half of your adult life illustration?? Alzheimer's is such an awful thing.

[@SousSherpa]

I do remember a documentary on Illustrators/comic book artists that had a segment on Foster with him in it. He was coloring his art and he had a color chart that he would go by.

[@321bytor]

Splendid episode. Prince Valiant - memories!

[@petebeard]

Hello, and it seems that this strip and Foster's work has unlocked similar memories from other viewers too.

[@fruitlessbeast]

Hooray! Another wonderful post. I always enjoy them. I know I’m not alone so thank you for all the hard work.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It seems views and sunscriptions are rising - maybe not as fast as I'd like but it still makes me happy.

[@Mountlougallops]

I just finished a vey good though stressful virtual visit with my new psychiatrist and lo and behold there's a lovely viddy from Pete Beard. Isn't the internet awesome? Thanks Pete. Some remarkably talented artists subjected to your loving research, once again.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm sorry to hear about your mental health issues, but if one of my videos can make a difference then that's good to know.

[@Mountlougallops]

@@petebeard thanks Pete. I’m feeling hopeful for the first time in a long while. Taking the step towards getting help finally was easy. Life looks good to me today. And that means I appreciate things like this really cool channel much more. Thanks again ✌🏽👌🏽👍🏼🕊️🤍

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@petebeard Art was and still is an integral part of therapy, as well as stories that help and heal..😊

[@petebeard]

@@eamonnclabby7067 Hi again and thanks for your recent comments. Always a welcome presence.

[@TheMarkEH]

Another wonderful 15 minutes of letting the works of fabulous illustrators wash over me. I feel refreshed. Thanks Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and that's a nice way of putting it. It means a lot to me.

[@anameyoucantremember]

I grew up reading my dad's Prince Valiant books. Hal Foster was my first inspiration to start drawing. Thank you for bringing back the memories. I still have the books on my shelf, too old now to be read without the pages crumbling to pieces.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Here in Britain the strip was published in newspapers as I grew up in the 50s. I always thought then that it must be a British strip because of its medieval subject and absence of speech balloons.

[@simonward-horner7605]

Superb, another excellent video, Pete. Poor Hal Foster, suffering from dementia or whatever it was that caused him to forget his life's work. Still, he had a good run up until then.

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes it was dementia unfortunately. In my case I'll be glad to forget most of the work I created.

[@ghostdragon9221]

Excellent as per usual, TY Pete. Have a good Sunday!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and your appreciation is always welcome.

[@JoseOliveira-kc4tr]

Thank you. Obrigado .🇬🇧🇵🇹 (The best way to end the Sunday !)

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as ususual for your positive comment. They mean a lot to me.

[@farmerfox3332]

wonderful just wonderful. always a pleasure sitting and visualizing these craftsmen at their tables producing such great work. Thank you for your research and dedication to this video series.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot for your positive response to the video.

[@TexRenner]

Prince Valiant was so beautifully drawn that it drew me to read the legends, though I didn't consider it a kids comic, when I was a kid.

[@albertcscs]

It was more adult, more like reading the pages of a book. And the illustrations were by far the best.

[@petebeard]

Hello and we had it over here in the 50s too. In fact as a kid I assumed it was created by an English illustrator because of its medieval content.

[@MeuMomentoEspiritual]

Ha, Hal Foster! Thank you, Mr. Beard, for this one! One of my first inspirations to becoming an illustrator! Fantastic video, as usual!

[@petebeard]

Hello and it seems Foster is the star of the show in this video. He was a master of pen and ink for sure.

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

Helen Haywood's work is not only so masterfully executed, but also incredibly cute and heartwarming.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I really enjoy her work too. But how can it be that I'd turned 70 before ever seeing it?

[@MsOntwos]

@@petebeard I'd never heard of her either, but what lovely work. Thank you for sharing it. Made my day.

[@shirleykathan-sayess5764]

What fabulous illustrators! How I wish we had illustrators like these working like this today. Another wonderful video, Pete! ❤ Shirley

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I think there are some illustrators currently working who are every bit as talented and interesting, but we don't get to see them as much since these days magazines, advertising and books tend to opt for photography. Maybe I should do a round-up of contemprary talent...

[@johnmavroudis2054]

@@petebeard AMEN. This follows the same line of thinking as those that bemoan the lack of musical bands “like we had in my day”…. Talented artists, and musicians, are out there if you dig a little. Here’s but one example: Marija Tiurina… kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZq1kqelmp6ojtk

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@petebeard that would be interesting 😊

[@bigblue6917]

Another excellent quartet of illustrators, Pete. It's always fascinating how people get to become illustrators and how their careers change over the years. With some with little of no formal training to those who attended various art schools. And how some dip in and out of illustration while others it is most if not all of their career.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks again for your appreciation. The variety of these illustrators and their career paths (for better or worse) has always fascinated me too.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@petebeard Indeed, who would have thought, Art school alumni like John Lennon would be part of the FAB 4...to say nothing of a certain Holly Johnson ( ex Frankie goes to Hollywood..) ,presenting the Turner prize...best wishes from the wirral peninsula...E...😊

[@119vaibhavmishra3]

Your series is amazing!!!! More exposure to unknown legends!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment - it is greatly appreciated.

[@wemblyfez]

Of course I know Hal Foster from my younger days, spread out on the floor on Sunday morning with the color "funny pages" from the Sunday newspaper. I confess I didn't read Prince Valiant so much as just stare at the marvelous scenes and figures Foster composed. Henri Lanos is a revelation; how come I've never heard of him? Some incredible art and story telling. As an aside, I loved Gardiner's variation of the ABC book as a propaganda tool. Knowing the last thing you need is someone suggesting yet another topic for a video, a historical overview of ABC books might be fun. Thanks again, Pete, for another foursome of great illustrations. Have a good week; looking forward as always to the next video. Cheers!

[@petebeard]

Hello again Doug, and thanks as ever for your comment. And actually the idea of a video devoted to alphabet books through the ages has considerable appeal. There is a terrifyingly long line of others already in the works but it wouldn't be the first subject to jump the queue.

[@TheMikester307]

Pete, thanks so much for these! Wonderful as always! I may have seen Gardiner and Haywood's work but I absolutely know the name Hal Foster! "Prince Valliant" ran in our Sunday Newspaper when I was a kid in the 60s, learning how to read from the comics page. It kept on in the paper until they downsized the comics in the '70s. One of the best comics artists ever. Oh, and a footnote to Hal (and Val's) appearances elsewhere: the strip was spoofed as "Prince Peril" in a Superman comic that was reprinted in the book "Superman from the 30s to the 70s." It seems a bad guy has a way of bringing comic strip villains into the real world to help him rob banks and cause chaos. The Man of Steel winds up using the gadget to bring Prince Peril and some other thinly-disguised heroes from the comics to settle the bad guy's hash! Great fun!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot for your appreciation. Interesting fact about Superman too. It sounds more the kind of thing Mad would have done.

[@TheMikester307]

@@petebeard Yes! It does!

[@matthieujoly]

Each time i'm watching your work, all theses images.. i'm totally lost in it, i do not see the time passing at all !! Great work ! Thank you so much.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your continued enthusiasm for the channel and its content. Your appreciation is always very welcome.

[@emptyentertainments7914]

A quartet of artists unknown or vaguely (Foster) to me and each outstanding. Lanos a revelation. Thank you

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the video. Lanos's scifi certainly took me by surprise.

[@robertdufour2456]

Thank you, Thank you so much for your series! It is tremendously excellent! (Words! That's why I try to draw! So Sorry for that awkward attempt at praise) Another amazing episode! Excellently Amazing!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. I'll take tremendously excellent and excellently amazing in any order you care to write them.

[@sidilicious11]

Thanks for introducing Helen Hayward. She did such lovely, anthropomorphic illustrations!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I totally agree. How come I got to be 70 years old before I ever encountered her work?

[@lostonwallace1396]

Hal Foster was a genius. 'Nuff said.

[@petebeard]

Agreed.

[@Susie_Floozie]

I thought you'd certainly covered Hal Foster early on, so I assumed this chapter was John Cullen Murphy, or perhaps you had uncovered an extremely accomplished Foster imitator, haha! Foster's stuff was wonderful. I loved the narrative style of block captions--word balloons would have been clutter, blocking the splendor and monkeying with the composition. Henri Lanos is a marvel. His ability to create such clean, clearly defined complex images using thousands of artfully varied lines is absolutely mind boggling! And how Helen Haywood made such workable anthropomorphic chickens is amazing. Thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual for the comment. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get around to Hal Foster, but I'm not featuring these illustrators in order of preference. I work quite impulsively and there are still quite a few relatively well known figures waiting in line. My school teacher told me a frightening number of years ago that I was 'haywire'. She had a point.

[@Susie_Floozie]

@@petebeard Hey, that's the same way I work--I call it my 'stream of unconsciousness' thinking. On my projects it sometimes leaves me in the weeds, but the great thing is it can lead to inspired choices and sudden insights that add texture. Sometimes I see a metalevel in my work I never planned, and at times it's taken my breath away. Sure, it's crazy--but it works!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@Susie_Floozie sounds like a plan...😊

[@jaybradley9083]

Once again, you have educated and entertained us. Hal Foster was the only one I had heard of. The others were delightful "newcomers" to me. Thank you for another wonderful video.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot. Judging by the comments many others had only heard of Foster too.

[@BernardMoss-f3o]

I've been watching and enjoying your videos on illustration for a few years now. It's a joy to see something so well put together and made by someone who loves and respects their subject. Hope to see moreover the next few years.

[@petebeard]

Many thanks. Your comment is music to my ears, and it really is a good feeling to know that my efforts are valued by viewers.

[@catlobo131]

Thank you for making these videos Pete, they're truly amazing!

[@petebeard]

Hello and you are very welcome. Thanks for your appreciation.

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Thank you so much for this brilliant series! As an artist, I marvel at the talents you shine a light on every time!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. You are more than welcome.

[@jordanfaris1929]

I thoroughly enjoyed all of the featured artists, but I have to say I've always loved Hal Foster's immaculate figurework, architecture and sheer beauty in those inspired Prince Valiant panels. It boggles the mind to think it appeared with such uninterrupted regularity (in the most inexpensive of printed media) for so many decades. He was definitely, creatively-speaking, one of the brilliant step-children of the great book illustrators such as Howard Pyle, Louis Rhead and Lancelot Speed, in kindred subject matter and sense of wonder, if not execution. As always Pete, thank you for continuing to delight and educate! Any moments perusing the latest offerings of your series is life's currency very well-spent indeed.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Mr. Foster is undoubtedly the hit of this particular instalment and in many ways rightly so. As you say his skill and expressive abilities with pen and ink resonates with the same timelessness as earlier golden age exponents.

[@zachgates7491]

Thank you for doing Hal Foster. He was a giant of his time.

[@petebeard]

Hello and you are welcome. He certainly had drawing skills few could hope to equal.

[@anniebooo]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! The Hal Foster bio and story, very much appreciated Pete! All the best, Annie

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Foster was certainly one of the greatest pen and ink illustrators and it was my pleasure to include him in the series.

[@sophierosebisou8420]

I just discovered your channel and have been binge watching your past videos over the past years. I love that so many of your cover board graphics (not sure what they are technically called on a video-“video covers”?) depict horses or assorted mounted animals! Well done.

[@petebeard]

Hello and welcome to the channel. Your positive response to the content is greatly appreciated. And I just call them the title screen (but that's probably not correct either).

[@Susie_Floozie]

@@petebeard I call them 'thumbnails' and people seem to understand what I mean.

[@CountProsper]

Very grateful for your work on this series.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm also grateful that you would post a positive comment. It means a lot to me to know that the channel is appreciated.

[@treasuresunderfoot7876]

Another great addition to the series. Once again I found 3 of 4 new to me. Thoroughly enjoy this one Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks again. I;m guessing its Foster you were already aware of, if other comments are anything to go by. I hadn't realised just how popular his work was.

[@treasuresunderfoot7876]

@@petebeard You are guessing correctly my friend 👍

[@stefanobaruffetti155]

A wonderful and visionary catalog of very interesting material. Thanks from a Tuscan enthusiast who has been following you for years.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your continued support for the channel. It's greatly appreciated. You live in a very beautiful part of the world - I'm envious!

[@stefanobaruffetti155]

@@petebeard Today is a holiday in Italy: liberation from the Nazi-Fascists and I went to Montepulciano to toast with the famous Brunello wine. Cheers.

[@hubbzjunkyard821]

When I was 7 or so years old, I saw the "Prince Valiant" book in a library and took it home. Although I never actually read the thing, i spent a lot of time watching the beautiful illustrations by Harold Foster and Max Trell in them. The drawing of the knight fighting the "Dragon" always stuck with me. When I saw the illustration on the thumbnail of this video it send my brain back in time. Now at 20 as a comics artist, my appreciation for Foster's work has reignited. I always felt a lil bad that I never returned the book to the library, but now I feel like it was the right choice. Amazing video, Pete! Love your narration and research! You earned a new subscriber :)

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. And your subscription is very welcome.

[@knottynate6876]

Just 1 day left! Aurther Rackham coverpage "Hans Christian Anderson" Heritage online auctions. May the greatest fan win!

[@alyslim5234]

wow i just found your channel and i'm literally in LOVE

[@alyslim5234]

and your voice is so lovely to listen to as well! it literally sounds like a podcast that i could put in the background! and i love the little bit of background music as well! it feels cosy, and sweet. just wow, floored by your dedication!! keep up the good work

[@petebeard]

Hello and you have made this old man blush with your compliments about the channel and my vocal chords. I really hope you continue to find the channel content interesting. Thanks a lot for your comments.

[@alyslim5234]

@@petebeard i'm so glad! you deserve all the praise! 😇

[@dacedebeer2697]

Prince Valiant is beautiful, I remember reading my grandfather's copies as a child in Brazil. It was one of my first artistic influences. It was awesome hearing about Hal Foster.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I hadn't realised just how widely admired Foster's work is.

[@secretshaman189]

I remember Prince Valiant as a young child, and was so impressed by the quality of the images in newsprint.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. As a kid I always thought it was a British strip because of the medieval subject matter and absence of speech balloons.

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

May I add my voice to those who have commented on the delightful choice of illustrators for #93 in the series? The level of talent of this diverse group is truly inspiring. I particularly liked the cubist/modernist work of Clive Gardiner. By the way, for any future reference to the company Hal Foster worked for, it is the Hudson's Bay Company. The geographical entity is the Hudson Bay but the company carries an apostrophe. Go figure! I look forward in anticipation to the next episode. Thanks, Pete

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as ever for the favourable comment - and correction. Although I can't imagine it coming up again any time soon...

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Lanos reminds me (especially in the rendering of architecture) of the illustrations of Francois Schuiten in the French graphic novel series Cities of the Fantastic (written by Benoit Peeters)

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I wasn't aware of that graphic novel but I see what you mean. I thought Lanos' vision must have had an influence on Lang's Metropolis.

[@kidmohair8151]

"...a risible bunch of belligerent buffoons." that is a well composed and memorable phrase, Mr Beard.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your recent trio of comments, and contrary to what many think not every illustrator died young in miserable conditions -but it does sometimes come across that way. And particular thanks for your favourable response to my use of the language.

[@Fabiano2265]

Thank you for such an interesting video. I recognised the picture from Prince Valiant which I read and thoroughly enjoyed some 40 years ago, had to click and it was well worth it. Well researched.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very glad you watched, and hope you'll find others of interest on the channel.

[@dlschgo]

Another great trio of illustrators! I would hope that people watching that have any other examples of these artists missing works would forward images to you. There is no better home for such discoveries. We are Blessed, Pete, to live at a time when you are doing your best work.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks. But 'trio'? Did you miss one? Either way your support is very welcome.

[@dlschgo]

@@petebeard misspoke! Watched every second.

[@Cmdtheartist]

Once again, beautiful and melancholic. So, thanks?...yes, thank you. I've heard the expression "The artist is dead", meaning that the art stands on its own even if the artist is not the person you'd like them to be. But in this case, because of your work, the artist and the art are alive.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation.

[@53Peterbilt]

Here we go again Mr Beard... I had to pause this video in several places, just so I could absorb the depth of the illustrator's works. At 0:37, we have a work by Henri Lanos. A simple drawing of a pair of fellows climbing a staircase at some sort of industrial installation...but the scope and perspective of this illustration is Outstanding! One's eye seems to effortlessly follow the gentleman at the bottom of the stairs, right up to the individual standing near the top. I had to pause it again at 1:27. The drawing is superb, but it's not just his line work that gets me, it's his wonderful imagination! Here's another artist that I would have loved to have had a chance to visit with to hopefully have him explain how he approaches a subject and comes up with an idea of how to convey it. Just fascinating! I'm really enjoying these series of artists profiles Pete! Thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I must admit to being a bit baffled by your latest comment. Is there some of it missing, or did you just mean 'here's another video to watch'? I know to my cost that written communication can mislead...

[@53Peterbilt]

@@petebeard Haha...No Sir! It's just that I've been making these same observations in my comments in so many of your videos, thus "here we go again..." 😆 I've really been enjoying learning about so many wonderful artists that I've never heard of before, through watching your videos. More please, more!

[@petebeard]

@@53Peterbilt Hello again and thanks for the clarification. I did wonder in a rather paranoid way if it was intended in the same way as the current Mrs. Beard when I rant about the madness of life on earth in the 21st century... I am greatly relieved!

[@exzendar2523]

Beautiful Video ❤ thank you!!!

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your appreciation.

[@ingridsommer2232]

So nice to find quality on KZbin

[@petebeard]

Hello, and it's just as nice to be appreciated by viewers such as yourself. Thanks.

[@markpevsner1024]

Henry Lanos had an incredible grasp of space, depth and perspective in his monochrome works.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment, with which I wholeheartedly agree.

[@PalimpsestProd]

3:55 Geof Darrow would love this image.

[@OkieSketcher1949]

Ah, Prince Valiant. I used to follow that comic for what seems like years. Once again, some great memories. I do not remember the chicken or pig books. I guess they were strictly a product bought in England as opposed to the US. In any case, her work was rather well done. I wish I were half as good. Thanks again. I am slowly getting through your works. I’m to the point I cannot remember which ones I have seen versus what is new to me. I’ll catch up eventually I’m sure. Then I can go back to #1 and start again.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the comment. And Helen Haywood is so obscure that although like me she was English I had never seen her work until a couple of years ago. Such discoveries convince me that the channel is sorely needed. She was great and I too would have given a limb to have her talent.

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

Nothing for me to say but thank you for another wonderful video.

[@petebeard]

And nothing for me to say other than you are welcome as ever.

[@kevinsollows1429]

Another great episode, Mr. Beard! Your viewers may be interested to know Illustrator Hal Foster’s late 19th-century birthplace in Halifax, Nova Scotia, now has a plaque celebrating him on display. Set in granite about three years ago, it is located on Lower Water Street about a hundred yards from cruise ship docks overlooking St. Georges Island, a drumlin central to early British efforts to guard the city against naval attack. Foster always credited his childhood playing along the Halifax waterfront and the characters he encountered as central to the sense of adventure in his “Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur” strip. He is, by far, the most successful & influential artist ever born & raised in the province but his work still is yet to be celebrated with a proper retrospective exhibition. Your video will help bring more attention to this wonderful artist. Thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for the appreciation and insight about Foster. I've lost count of the talented illustrators I've featured who deserve their own exhibition space or museum, and it seems he is yet another. I just returned from a trip to the city of Chester, the birthplace of Randolph Caldecott. He is recognised as one of the most influential Victorian children's illustrators but there is not one solitary piece of his work anywhere in the city. Depressing.

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I loved ALL of these & It is sad when someone suffers from memory loss; it has happened in my family & it is sad to watch.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual for your appreciation.

[@anilachar323]

Part of my childhood was Hal Foster and his sinewy B&W comic strip art for Tarzan. Which I'd copy on thumbnail size paper strips, cover it with cellophane tape to make my own comic art stickers! Thanks Pete for triggering up some memories' neurons inside of our skulls!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the Foster section. He was certainly an immensely talented illustrator.

[@TheSparkatron]

If anyone needs any inspiration they should watch this series. There are so many fantastic images to look at.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and subscription. And I'm particularly pleased that you see it as a source of inspiration.

[@vitus.verdegast]

After retirement Hal Foster underwent hip surgery but suffered a medical crisis while under sedation that led to dementia. In his later years he did not remember doing Prince Valiant.

[@petebeard]

Hello and that's what I said, but I left out the details to keep it short.

[@liveoak4124]

Thank you

[@georgefrench1907]

👍

[@jorey4565]

My father made me discover Prince Valiant in years 70 ,we are lucky in France the work of Foster was printed on luxuous paper and prestigious edition in black & white..for me Foster and later N.C Wyeth are the Masters of masters of novels and oil paintings illustrations !

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. In case you don't know there is a video about Wyeth on the channel too.

[@fahadalenezi9677]

you all ways great & marvelous 🙌💐

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation

[@michaelschlageter8381]

Thank you..u always bring up artist l have never heard before... Actually l like their art even if some would only call it illustrations more than the art of the great artists of that period of time... KZbin should create a category with the name valuable content.. I m sure your videos would be placed there well 😊

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel and its content. It's very welcome.

[@rubengalusso]

Formidable video de investigación y difusión, que muchos dibujantes agradecemos

[@petebeard]

Hola y muchas gracias por su apreciación del canal. Es particularmente bienvenido por parte de alguien que es un artista genuino.

[@clivedurrant481]

Part 93wow Peter that's some track record...Thanks!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. Who would have thought it? Certainly not me, and 100 grows ever nearer providing I don't get hit by a bus in the meantime.

[@graphosxp]

⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟

[@mikedirle520]

Another educational lesson that intrigued me. Tnx!

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks as ever.

[@brushonfire8800]

some errors on foster* he definitely did the color design on the first few years of Prince Valiant. It was later done by his son and other assistants the medieval castle was done during the war because of newspaper shortages. All comics had to shrink and PV was a full page. This was done so that papers that needed the space could just exclude the medieval castle without cutting out PV. It was never meant to be a long term thing: just a bonus for the papers that ran the full page despite the cutting back on comics.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment, but for reasons unknown your message won't display.

[@albertcscs]

Absolutely wonderful video again Pete, I am fascinated by 20th century industrial art. Gardiner was amazing and way ahead of his time. You know, we all need to have a conversation about WR Hearst, in light of his support of art and artists last century. He comes off as Rupert Murdoch type, look at Citizen Kane, but if we start to list all the illustrators and comic artists he employed at one time or another, from Nell Brinkley in the 'teens up to Clive and Pogany in the 50's, there may be another part to his story we have overlooked. Has anyone written a good biography of him?

[@petebeard]

Hi Albert and thanks as ever. You make a good point about Hearst. Anyone who commissioned so much great work can't be all bad. He even tried to work with genuine British nutcases like Sidney Sime, and apparently was effectively George Herriman's patron.

[@albertcscs]

@@petebeard Yes, he had a lifetime contract with King Features. Bill Blackbeard and Allan Holtz both wrote books about him.

[@okolepuka808]

There are only a handful of valuable worthwhile channels on youtube nowadays--so much noise, so little signal. As a graphic designer, I can't express how much I appreciate what you do here Pete--thank you! You covered Darger already right?

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's very welcome. And I'm guessing you mean the eccentric Henry Darger. But unfortunately if that is the case he disqualifies himself from inclusion on the grounds that to the best of my knowledge he was very much an artist. I know some don't feel the same as me - particulalrly in the USA - but I'm of the opinion that they are two distinctly different things, and although I'll include the odd work of art created by people who were in the main illustrators I leave actual artists to others. Sorry to disappoint.

[@johnplatt3704]

Re Foster. My hand wasn't good enough to get me more than a job running a stat machine in those days but one of my best friends did a lot of color separations and I saw some how-to guides. Generally the artist would paint color guides in watercolor (or occasionally gouache). The production artist who did separations could have, if they wanted them, guides to copying some very elaborate effects. As usual thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment and knowledge of the process as to who did what.

[@glynstimpson]

Great video thanks very much

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as ever.

[@charlestaylor3195]

That was excellent Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad you think so.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Top notch...as always...cheers Pete...😊...E..

[@petebeard]

Hello Eamonn and thanks for your comment as ever.

[@xfranczeskax]

I always wondered why Prince Valiant was so much more beautiful than all the other comics. It is that old! Certainly a staple in many German households of the 80s and 90s.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comment. Foster was a great draughtsman.

[@desmcharris]

That was fantastic Peter! All of these artists are worthy of greater recognition. I wonder if you would consider looking into the works of Pauline Baynes? Thank you once more . Great work.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm aware of Pauline Baynes' work and I like it a lot. But she was born too late to featue in the unsung heroes series (1910 is the cut-off DOB). And the last time I looked - but it is a few years ago - I couldnt muster enough material for a solo video. But you have reminded me to have another archaelogical dig and maybe I can find more.

[@desmcharris]

Thank you Peter, deeply appreciate you replying. Love this channel.

[@idaornstein1305]

Errr...the green trees, I think the third illustration you show of Gardiner’s work is very much like Chagall’s work. What do you think?

[@richmcgee434]

Interesting mix. I've got prints of some of Lanos' scifi work on my wall. FWIW, Prince Valiant is one the very few cartoons that had a licensed tabletop roleplaying game produced for it, although I believe it's long out of print and this point and I'm sure the license has lapsed.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

[@idaornstein1305]

Sorry, I meant Paul Cézanne, not Marc Chagall.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and yes, he freely admitted the influence of Cézanne, and personally I prefer those to his more cubist styled images, where he seems to be mimicking Edward McKnight Kauffer.

[@cluek9780]

When browsing thru Frederic Remington’s rare preliminary studies and sketches on the Wild Bill Hickok site, I came upon his pen and ink illustrations on paper -=> which are quite *above his painting efforts IMHO. While some earlier (1880s) pencil drawings/paintings were converted into wood engravings for magazine publication, that was a *separate skill usually performed by a production artist at the press (from the submitted drawings), and signed as such (“Rem., fecit”, “, sculpsit”). Remington’s inks were surprising, superlative, and obviously over pencils or some other preliminaries, as his fills seemed too-informed to have been done on the fly(?). Pen and ink is a truly *decisive medium in culling the great from the mediocre, as any mis-strokes remain informative to the discerning eye of a fellow pro. Even the consumption level of coffee is recorded!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and observations. Funnily enough, I'm working on a profile of the great Edd cartier and one of the sources says that he was influenced by Remington. I just couldn't see it as I was only familiar with Remington's painted work, but your comment led me to his drawn images and now I get it.

[@wynnschaible]

I was very familiar with Prince Valiant growing up! Ah, the "singing sword!" And how over the years Val and Aleta's son gained an ever larger part of the strip. But that dementia should have struck so hard and deep...so unutterably sad! I shouldn't spend all my comment on Foster, I was really impressed with Lanos' illustrations too., But....

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment. I grew up reading the strip in British newspapers and at the time I thought this Hal Foster person was British because of the subject matter and lack of speech balloons.

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

What is your email? I found some images in a book called "Devils, Demons and Monsters" that dont exist online as far as i know. id like to show them to you. "Triumph of Death" Della Bella, "Death strangling a warrior" Ligozzi, "allegory of death" Marcadente de Ravenna.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I'm sorry to say I don't give out my e-mail on the grounds that this is a very public arena and there are some strange and not always well intentioned types out there. Sorry about that - but I am aware of the images you quote (and they are available online) as I'm a keen admirer of the renaissance and the darker elements of medieval art. But I must admit the Trumph of Death I know is by Pieter Breugel. I've even considered making a video on the history of depictions of Death, but ultimately decided its too gruesome for most viewers.

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

@@petebeard looks like the names werent fully spelled out, the artists are stephano della bella, jacopo ligozzi and marco dente da ravenna.

[@guldenaydin9918]

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[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the emojis.

[@Кірх]

Good day! I like your works so much. I would like to propose you something that will be very useful for Ukrainians. May I translate your videos in Ukrainian? Of course I will use links to the author. Thank you beforehand.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.

[@grumpymcgrump5822]

I remember Prince Valiant. It was in the Sunday comics section when I was a young kid. I always skipped over it. Too many words, and it wasn't funny.

[@petebeard]

Hello and although I was always drawn (pun intended) to the funny stuff I did make an exception in Valiant's case just because it was so well drawn.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@petebeard amazing stuff ...same goes with interpretation of Arthurian, and Tolkein imagery, I believe the Ribble valley provided inspiration for Tolkein...😊

[@charlesegerton2859]

Wasn’t sure of any other way to get in touch with you, but I thought you might enjoy this. A story from America about Bill Blackbeard, who personally collected and preserved over 2.5 million artifacts of comic strip part. Part of which is on display at the Ohio State University. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmTdnJdmj9x7eNE

[@petebeard]

Hello and this is not only the best way to contact me, but due to my hermit-like existence the only way. But I'm delighted that you did, and many thanks for the link. I enjoyed it immensely, and how I wish it was viewable in this country.

[@justicewokeisutterbs8641]

Very pleasant and informative.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your recent comments. I hope you'll continue to watch and enjoy the channel.

[@justicewokeisutterbs8641]

@@petebeard I really enjoy the work of those illustrators you write about. I was lucky enough to see a exhibition of the works of Alphonse Mucha at a local museum years ago. I'm an amateur artist and I recall looking, just at his drawings, and thinking, "I'm not worthy..." 😆 I coughed up sixty bucks for the catalogue, though I couldn't really afford it. I have no regrets at all.