Barker draws deceptively simple black and white stick figures and oblong alien ships.
The media has become a marketing machine for these overseers, and they continually saturate the world with alien logos and messages such as "In the future, everything will work" and "Stop domesticating yourself".
Barker started selling trinkets like necklaces and stickers, and his first book, ə, exclusively through this home-grown business.
His book was an underground hit, and received praise from Terry Gilliam, Ivan Stang, and Noam Chomsky.
Barker also created and ran a (now defunct) labyrinthine website early in the days of the World Wide Web.
The player worked his way up the pyramid by collecting power through media, corporations, government, and labor, to eventually dominate the world.
Although a growing hit, Bill Barker disappeared from the public (and underground) eye sometime in late September 2001.