>>96058677
Aside from the standards like Howard and Tolkien:

Jung. Bulfinch. Joseph Campbell. Tezuka. Claude Levi Strauss. Edward Gibbon. Homer.

If I'm doing modern, wu tang clan, Chris Ware

>>96080523
>>96095694
From Heavy Metal.
Jean Giraud AKA. Mobius. Pic related. A storyboard for a Dune movie.
Philippe Druillet
Enki Bilal
Jean-Claude Forest

Also 2000 AD has some suitable ones as well.


Jack Kirby.
Frank Miller. Ronin, Rusty and the Big GUY, Martha Washington.
Leiji Matsumoto

>>96095685
Starting small and accessible, instead of carpet bombing with too many possibilities that don't get explored.


>tribal stuff
Historical tribes and cultures are probably wider than anything you can easily invent. Howard. 1920s pulp.