Rob, that's easy to answer. Just compare a very artful cartoon like "Prince Valiant" by Hal Foster or Disney's "Cinderella" and "Snow White" from the 1930's/1940's with today's rather ugly & simplified "Pokémon" and "Arielle" (I have to admit that I actually was already disappointed with the 1970's animation version from "The Jungle Book"...those were no longer the typical beautiful Disney faces that I grew up with) and you can see a decline in the art of animation movies and cartoon illustrations equally.Rob Houghton wrote:Apparently children prefer these cartoony covers these days. How did they get so corrupted and easily pleased?!
Children grow up with a certain standard in illustrations. If that standard gets lowered and lowered again, they have nothing really "artsy" to compare with (unless they can have a look at their grandfather's Prince Valiant cartoons collection).
Just my two cents.