• Black Huggins Ink:
http://www.dickblick.com/products/higgins-waterproof-black-magic-ink/
• Crow quill pen.
• Fine line markers, including brush pen.
• Blue Prismacolor Col-Erase
• Standard pencils. Get a good one Staedtler is fine or any good art pencil. Weight is up to you but I wouldn't go over a 2B.
• Pad of bristol paper. Smooth, it's sometimes called plate or vellum.
• Roll of sketch/trace paper. If you have trace pads or paper that's fine.
Links:
Carter Goodrich, simple forms:
http://www.cartergoodrich.com/
John Cuneo, great loose line and great nuance.
http://www.johncuneo.com/
This is Cuneo's Drawger page. It has a great article on cartoonist Richard Thompson:
http://drawger.com/johncuneo/?
Peter de Seve. great "searchy" line and really funny. Another great guy for nuance. Great expressions.
http://www.peterdeseve.com
Brad Holland:
http://bradholland.net
Steve Brodner, one of the best current political cartoonists:
http://stevebrodner.com/
Calvin and Hobbes, great, well everything...
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
Mimi Pond a lot of autobiographical stuff:
http://mimipond.typepad.com/
Zap Comix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Comix
Honoré Daumier:
http://www.daumier.org/
Mort Drucker, crazy good draftsmanship, look at his inking:
http://www.adriansinnott.com/mortdrucker.html
Amazing video of artist John Kascht on caricature, watch this or else!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpUE-oMpjNE