I stumble upon many inspiring videos that may be of use to comic/cartoon artists and thought it would be best to share them here. I hope you'll find a bit of refreshment in them!

Windsor McKay is one of two early newspaper comic artists that I believe opened up the industry to be recognized as an art-form. McKay's work on Little Nemo is a stunning visual accomplishment and showed the power of sequential art to transport a reader to a far away place. "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" is an interesting newspaper strip as it is very one-note and almost always ends negatively.

McKay was also the inventor of animated film, and below are two of his early examples: Gertie the Dinosaur and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend. They're worth a watch, though I feel that they Rarebit contributes 1/20th that which Gertie added to animation. I'd take them instead as a good sample of the where Animation was over 90 years ago.

(The second artist would be George Herriman's Krazy Kat, though this remains popular for its' exceptional use of honest and like-able characters.)