Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.