nuclear and present danger...

Heres an op-ed i did running in todays LATimes - the story was about how its very dangerous for women sailors working on submarines, due to the high level of radioactivity. it focused on the damage done to the reproductive organs - and a few of my roughs focused on that - but the overall theme was the general danger the nuclear energy has on women - so thats the way we went. Wes, who is seriously the greatest AD had some fun ideas on the layout - which happened to work well with the chosen idea - of having the periscope travel up to the top of the text. Like every op-ed the turn around was pretty fast, but Wes made it smooth and easy.
heres the main part of the image:
heres a close-up - yep, im airbrushing in pieces now :)
a rough of the layout - i'll post a proper pdf as soon as i get one:
some roughs:

Thanks as always to Wes, and to you for reading.