As I recall, the cover image was drawn with #1 lead pencil and is printed as the same size of the original art. The same image of the jet was just copied and pasted over and over from page to page with its placement on the panel being the only difference. The image of the person kept growing bigger from page to page, but the initial drawing was still used. By the final panel the image starts to break up and the lines have texture. I love the way #1 lead looks when it is enlarged and decomposed by toner limitations on a photocopier.
Sarah has commented on how this is a "quiet" comic, hearing only silence as one reads it.
It seems like a strange topic in hindsight. In 1998 I was, on the surface, a successful, safely tenured faculty member at a community college, secure for life if I had wanted it that way. But less than two years later I took an opportunity to get out of there, so something wasn't working. OK, maybe it wasn't such a strange topic.
