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/

How To Become a Great Cartoonist - The HARD Way

This inspiring article ("How To Pick An Animation School") at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive shows us how all those classic animators and cartoonists got to be so good. Along the way this post confirms what we've always suspected... the road to greatness in cartooning or any other craft is paved with lots of study, hard work, curiosity and perseverance. We can't afford to ever stop learning!

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Theory: How To Pick An Animation School