| Big Numbers | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:FUMBIG05.jpg) The cover of the first issue of Big Numbers, art by Bill Sienkiewicz. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Mad Love |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date | April – August 1990 |
| No. of issues | 2 (of 12) |
| ISSN | 0957-8692 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Alan Moore |
| Artist(s) | Bill Sienkiewicz |
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Big Numbers is an unfinished graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Bill Sienkiewicz. In 1990 Moore's short-lived imprint Mad Love published two of the planned twelve issues. The series was picked up by Kevin Eastman's Tundra Publishing, but the completed third issue did not print, and the remaining issues, whose artwork was to be handled by Sienkiewicz's assistant Al Columbia, were never finished.
The work marks a move, on Moore's part, away from genre fiction, in the wake of the success of Watchmen. Moore weaves mathematics (in particular the work of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot on fractal geometry and chaos theory)[1] into a narrative of socioeconomic changes wrought by an American corporation's building of a shopping mall in a small, traditional English town, and the effects of the economic policies of the Margaret Thatcher administration in the 1980s.