Meet Roy Crane -- The Greatest Cartoonist Ever

Roy Crane practically created the adventure comic strip with his fantastic Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer comic strips.

Roy Crane combined breakneck action and nail-biting suspense with a bigfoot cartoony style that produced a timeless classic strip that would influence the biggest names in 20th century cartoon art, including Milton Caniff, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman and Charles Schulz.

http://Greatest.Cartoonist.Ever.com/

R.C. Harvey says it all in the best article on Roy Crane that I have ever read:
http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/

...and some more Roy Crane links to peruse:

http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/memorium/crane.jpg
http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crane_r.htm
http://www.stevestiles.com/crane.htm
http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/
http://greatest.cartoonist.ever.com/