This is very clever story has several interesting features. The story itself runs on the conceit that his hair has become some kind of vegetation – it grows flowers, changes color in the fall and eventually grows little tubers that he can eat. At the time, Caza was probably considered to be a hippy and length of hair was a big deal. It’s a neat turn on a fairly topical subject that also spoke directly to the casual Heavy Metal reader.

Caza also busts out some great design tricks. The fixed-perspective-show-change-by-what’s-different approach is obvious, but really well done. He also throws in a topical reference to the mainstream design aesthetic in the first panel, where his hair is the shortest and conforms most to the people who live and breath in that context.

My favorite part is at the bottom of the page, with the effect he got on the man in the white suit. Only certain parts of the clothing is filled in – the rest is just a mass of color. It’s the kind of thing that Hugo Pratt would do with thick black brushstrokes, but here it’s the absence of everything – pure negative space.

(Heavy Metal issue #51, June 1981 – Page 75 The March Hair by Caza)