Current favorite artist/influence: Dave McKean
McKean is a traditional artist who combines his art with film. (Although he is probably most known for the comics he created with Neil Gaiman.)
I recently watched his film, MirrorMask, and now I'm going through another ink and pen phrase.
Here's the link to the trailer of Mirrormask:
http://youtu.be/GA1iawlsKLgI highly recommend it.