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by **Cobblepot** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:24 am

I just found an old issue of Prince Valiant called "In the Days of King Arthur" by Harold Foster and Max Trell. In this issue Prince Valliant dresses up like a "yellow demon", by skinning a goose and making a mask out of it. To scare of some knights that are after him.

Here are the images:

See the resemblence!
Notice that the ears are the gooses feet

Did Kirby ever mention this.

by **CameronStewart** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:03 am

Yes, Kirby was no dishonest swiper, he was open about basing Etrigan on the Prince Valiant demon.

Man. Hal Foster could draw, huh?

by **Denis** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:12 am

CameronStewart wrote:
Man. Hal Foster could draw, huh?

You can say that again. :shock:

by **AgentHelix** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:13 am

Indeed he could.

I'd read some time ago that this is where the inspiration for Etrigan came from, but I'd never actively sought out the source material. Fine work, indeed.

by **HellboyOne** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:47 am

CameronStewart wrote:Yes, Kirby was no dishonest swiper

I love the notion of an "honest swiper".

Kirby rules!

by **CameronStewart** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:21 pm

You can swipe and be honest about it! It's maybe not the most ethical thing to do, but stealing a drawing and admitting it is better than stealing a drawing and pretending you came up with it on your own.

by **Captain Fabulous** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:28 pm

i saw that in a book about Hal Foster. it also showed drawings he did that looked very similar to some of the early batman pictures.

a very good artist, very influencial.

by **Jeff Bartoletti** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:11 pm

I never got crazy for Foster, for whatever reason.

by **Cobblepot** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:36 pm

That's good to hear Kirby gave him credit. Even Etrigan's origin story has some resemblance to the Prince Valiant story.

by **HellboyOne** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:13 pm

CameronStewart wrote:You can swipe and be honest about it! It's maybe not the most ethical thing to do, but stealing a drawing and admitting it is better than stealing a drawing and pretending you came up with it on your own.

Haha...I know, I know. Totally no explanation necessary. It's just a funny phrase, is all.

by **Kelly Tindall** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:35 pm

That explains Etrigan's little slippers!

Nice stuff.

K.

by **suryrony** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:27 pm

it's like that old saying "good artists borrows , brilliant artists steal"

by **MORTCO** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:08 pm

I like the more political use of "inspired by".

by **Puppy_Zwolle** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:36 am

Just luck that he did not get inspired by paleontology......

I actually owned a copy of that Valiant and therefore never doubted where demons came from. From a shop where they hang chickens in the window or pictures of laughing cows or pigs.

Pure evil

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