 In 1927 , McCay attended a dinner in his honor in New York . After a considerable amount of drinking , McCay was introduced by animator Max Fleischer . McCay gave the gathered group of animators some technical advice , but when he felt the audience was not giving him attention , he berated his audience , saying , " Animation is an art . That is how I conceived it . But as I see , what you fellows have done with it , is making it into a trade . Not an art , but a trade . Bad Luck ! " That September he appeared on the radio at WNAC , and on November 2 he was interviewed by Frank Craven for The Evening Journal 's Woman 's Hour . During both appearances he complained about the state of contemporary animation . 
