“I mainly did it to frighten other writers.”

An update to this bit, about serials and such—over on Bluesky, Tade Thompson has dug up a high-res scan of Alan Moore’s Big Numbers plot that’s just about actually legible, so that’s commended to your attention; while we’re on the subject, here’s Illogical Vollume of the Mindless Ones on Big Numbers as seen through Eddie Campbell’s How to be an Artist, the latter of which I’m already going to have had reason to be mentioning here in just a little while, so stay tuned.