When I was in high school, in the 1940s, a kid could buy a beat-up 1930 Model A Ford or a 1936 Ford V8, fix it up and have a nice car to ride around in. I could fix almost anything that went wrong with my car. Today, I hardly ever look under the hood of my Jeep, and I hope I don’t ever have to change a flat tire. Things change.

The first books I did, in the 1970s, I pre-separated the colors of the artwork to black half tones on acetate sheets. Years later, I graduated to painting in full color using vinyl or gouache paints. In making this book, I worked on an Apple computer using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Director.