Editing Hal Foster (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[City of Halifax|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]], Foster was a staff artist for Stovel, Commercial Art Co., W.M. Buckley Studio, and Brigdens Limited in [[Winnipeg]]. In 1919, Foster rode his bicycle to [[Chicago]] to see what the job market was like. He later moved there in 1921, and began working for the Jahn & Ollier Engraving Co.<ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite news |last=Mastrangelo |first=Joseph P. |date=April 22, 1978 |title=Val's Sire at 85 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/04/22/vals-sire-at-85/66a9b62c-45e3-4ba5-9473-7f03f99235c6/ |work=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 21, 2014}}</ref> Foster freely "audited" classes at the [[Chicago Academy of Fine Arts]], a practice commonly made back then by poor students, which is confirmed by the fact that the Art Institute has no record of him taking formal classes. The illustrator [[Joseph Christian Leyendecker|J. C. Leyendecker]] was an early influence on Foster.<ref>{{Citation | type = book review | url = http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-prince-valiant-vol-hal-foster/ | last = Donoghue | first = Steve | title = Open Letters Monthly | contribution = Prince of a Lost Realm | access-date = September 18, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190323231920/http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-prince-valiant-vol-hal-foster/ | archive-date = March 23, 2019 | url-status = dead }}.</ref>

In 1925, Foster began working for the Chicago advertising studio Palenske-Young, Inc., and his clients were: Union Pacific Railroad, Johnson Outboard Motors, Wurlitzer Grand Pianos, Jelke Margarine, and the International Truck Company. In 1928, Palenske-Young was hired by Joseph Henry “Joe” Neebe, owner of ''Famous Books and Plays'', to adapt the novel ''[[Tarzan (comics)|Tarzan]]'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] into a 10-week comic strip series. Foster was selected to illustrate the adaptation, which first appeared in the British weekly magazine ''Tit-Bits'' on October 20, 1928. The series was later published in the United States, beginning on January 7, 1929. Foster returned to do the ''Tarzan'' [[Sunday strip]] beginning September 27, 1931, continuing until [[Burne Hogarth]] took over the Sunday ''Tarzan'' on May 9, 1937.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.toonopedia.com/val.htm | last = Markstein | first = Don | title = Toonopedia | contribution = Prince Valiant}}.</ref>