Newsarama.com : Alex Toth | The Legacy of ALEX TOTH Explored in IDW's GENIUS, ISOLATED: If we were to debate who is the greatest comics artist of all time, many reputable comics scholars have argued that Alex Toth is on the short list of serious candidates. He’s also, unfortunately, among the least recognized names that would enter into such a debate.
However, Toth not only transformed the language of comics as one of the comic book industry’s formative pioneers in the 1940s, he also changed the animation field as well, streamlining character designs and allowing for simpler animation. Toth’s attention to page layouts and panel composition for DC, Standard and Dell Comics during the 1940s and 1950s redefined graphic storytelling on the comics’ page. His elegant designs helped to boost fledgling Hanna-Barbera to a place among the leaders in animation, with striking characters who were easy to animate and memorable to young viewers.
In short, fans of Warner Bros. Animation (particularly the Bruce Timm school) or Pixar owe as much to Toth as fans of Frank Quitely or Stuart Immonen.