Exploring the Artists List:

Fujio Akatsuka
Nell Brinkley (who influenced another great female artist Blanche Ames)
Thomas Hart Benton
Karl Bodmer
Carl Barks
William Cary
George Catlin
Jay N. "Ding" Darling
Harry Grant Dart
Walt Disney
Will Eisner
Max Fleisher
Charles Red Grooms
George Herriman
Katsushika Hokusai (who influenced many including Yoshitoshi Tsukioka)
Katsushika Isai
Jack Kirby
Harvey Kurtzman
Goseki Kojima
Winsor McCay
Yasuji Mori
Thomas Nast
R.F. Outcault
Katsuhiro Otomo
Gibbon Sengai
Toyo Sesshu (a pupil of master Josetsu)
Toba Sojo
Tawaraya Sotatsu (who influenced Ogata Korin who then inspired Ito Jakuchu)
Osamu Tezuka