“Cicada” tells the story of an insect who works in an office, but none of the people there like him.

After military service Ken Barr relocated to London to launch a career as a commercial artist and briefly worked for the British magazine Nebula Science Fiction, contributing three undistinguished covers and numerous interior illustrations.

He also drew for a British Comic book, D.C. Thomson's Commando: War Stories in Pictures. After arriving in America in 1967, he continued working for comics, illustrating DC Comics' war comics like G.I. Combat, Our Army at War, and Our Fighting Forces.

He also worked for such magazines as Eerie and Vampirella, and for several black-and- white comics from Marvel Comics like Doc Savage, The Rampaging Hulk, and Planet of the Apes.