Many cartoonists I liked were easy to follow because they stayed on a certain series for a while, but as in everything else,
Alex Toth was an exception.
Once in a while he would draw a short back-up story that would show up in
various comic books, or a full issue here and there. His work was well thought out with strong fluid lines and compositions that no one else ever thought of. His work always made me want to draw, it looked simple enough, but an element was missing when you tried to copy it yourself.
I was in college when I learned that he designed Space Ghost, and most of the action/adventure cartoons
Hanna-Barbera did in the sixites and early seventies. Strong design work, nothing else looked like his stuff. You can see some of it
here.
Sidebar: The Comic And Art Podcast just did a tribute to Mr. Toth in 2-parts, and asked several cartoonists and animators if they had a favorite story.
Dirty Job,
Daddy And The Pie (my favorite), and the back-up stories he did of
The Fox. He even explained the entire animation process with
The How And Why Of TV Cartoons. What is amazing is how much he says in so few pages.