Prince Valiant Vol. 2

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the art is the highlight. these are strips of the 40s..art is well researched. for todays readers the characters might seem quite shallow.. especially female leads.but for budding comic artists like me..its a great book to learn how not to create silly characters and to be inspired by it beautiful art.

All of the Prince Valiant volumes are phenomenal! Awesome stories, very creative and with a sense of adventure that incites a passion for life even when our hero is going through adversity.

About 40 years ago, my father get two Nostalgia Press books of Prince Valiant. I loved the strip, but the binding was terrible, and they only had about 3-4 years worth of strips. I've been looking for extend the collection every since, but reprints were all terrible and often B&W and abridged. When Fantagraphics reprinted the entire run about a decade ago, I got some, but they were hard to find and were paperback.These new books are literally something I've been looking for for my entire life.These new books have vinyl covers, which are a little cheap, but much more durable than the paperbacks. More importantly, the comics are beautiful. The printing is a little larger than the old Nostalgia books, and the coloring is better. This was obviously a labor of love. Where I have over-laps, I've compared the coloring and printing. The Nostalgia books better reflect the words in the story and often color in scenes that were all blocked in one color in the older book.I bought the first one for $80 and was immediately ready to shell out that much for each. To find them for only $14 was an added bonus.If you already love Prince Valiant, buy them without hesitation.If you've read it in the newspaper but weren't impressed, buy it and you'll understand why it is considered such a classic -- the old Hal Foster stips were soooooo much better than the ones today.

Das Buch zeigt die Sonntagsseiten in ununterbrochener Reihenfolge,die von Hal Foster gezeichnet wurden.Die Größe des Buches kommt recht nahe an die Größe der Original "Sunday pages",sodaß die herrliche Darstellung der einzelnen Zeichnungen besonders deutlich wiedergegeben werden. Auch die Aufbereitung der Farben für diese Zeichnungen sind einmalig schön gelungen. Ich kenne keine vergleichbare Prinz Eisenherz Edition,die so gut ist.Natürlich bin ich ein großer Bewunderer von der künstlerischen Arbeit von Hal Foster,von seinen fantastischen Zeichnungen, aber auch von seiner Prinz Eisenherz (Prince Valiant) Saga. Da stimmt einfach alles.Deshalb finde ich das Buch absolut empfehlenswert.

Un seul commentaire: le siège du château d' Andelkrag m'a inspiré un sonnet. Je recommande vivement ce livre à tous ceux qui aiment les romans chevaleresques.

A visual treat - the story is naff but better than most from that period. The drawing and the colour are fantastic.