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The most influential animators in the 20th century such as Disney have been influenced themselves but this was before animation was recognised and wasn't as popular but there was independent artists how created moving images, what does that say about an artist who influenced Disney? That would be cartoonist Winsor McCay. 

McCay's masterpiece, "Little Nemo in Slumberland" (1905), was "the most beautiful and innovative comic strip ever drawn," John Canemaker wrote in "Winsor McCay: His Life and Art." 

His imagery and artistry inspired the likes of Maurice Sendak, they are so inivative in animation because they almost seem to flow off the page, like the page dimentions limit their potential, they are so detailed they move in our imagination, you could almost animate these comic strips as frames duplicated, this was the moment, I feel when animation was right around the corner. 

McCay was undoubtedly one of the most important cartoonists in comics and animation history," said Caitlin McGurk, the outreach curator at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University.