Scouting out the Inland Empire. Killing time in an antique store in Riverside, CA, I found a gem from my childhood. Reading is a good thing and I got hooked early on from books like this. The Tom Swift series was an action-based series of books geared to guys. I liked the covers maybe as much as I liked the stories. These books were the start of my fascination with illustrations, the impact of a single image, and skillful rendering. (Illustrator, Graham Kaye)