“Illustration from the late-1900s up through the middle of the 20th century was absolutely amazing. In general, American culture was at its highest skill wise in every aspect of human life in the 1940s. It’s all been downhill since then. You just open an old 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.”

In Amid Amidi The John Kricfalusi Interview, Part 2 http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/the-john-kricfalusi-interview-part-2-434.html, Cartoon Brew, 31 August 2004.

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