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On the note of the artistic side of the discussion, I agree, that computers have taken a lot of the "artistic" side of the cartoon out. Not because it is computer animated, nor because of line width, colouring, etc.
The problem is that computers make the animating so easy, that non-artistic folk can make them. Honestly, a 15 year old can make a single frame of a cartoon on a computer nowadays, and from that point, it is just a matter of taking that frame and telling the computer what parts can be animated, and animating them. The computer as a medium has not cheapened the feel of the cartoon, it's the dilution of the artistic pool of people who CAN do it, that makes the true artists tough to find in the sea of people who do it strictly for the marketing.
In the old days, sure, they wanted to make a buck with their cartoon... but the only people capable of making one, were people who REALLY loved doing it. These weren't guys who would drag themselves out of bed, punch a time clock and draw for 8 hours, then go home. These were guys who got up in the morning WANTING to make their cartoons, and would stop only when it was finished, or they were exhausted. If they didn't make money at it, they would have been doing it anyway, just on a much smaller scale, and noone would have ever seen it.
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