In the June National Geographic Magazine which came last week they had a beautiful illustration of a dead zone that occurs along the gulf coast:
Good illustrators are extremely underrated in our photography based society. National Geographic does give their illustrators credit I hope that they pay them well also. This drawing by Hiram Henriquez was so good it explained the issue of dead zones much better than writing or photographs ever could.
The scion of the artistic Wyeth family, N. C. Wyeth, started as an illustrator for movie posters and book dust jackets before he became a famous painter. His original illustrations now sell for tens of thousands of dollars. When he was drawing them commercially they were used and then discarded. The specific idea here is to find a few of the brilliant illustrators still working today, like Henriquez, and buy some of their original works.