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[[File:Alex11.gif|frame|Alex Masterley]]
'''''[http://www.alexcartoon.com/ Alex]''''' (1987- ) is a [[Slice of Life]] humour comic by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor following the life of Alex Masterley, a City of London merchant banker.
''Alex'' is a topical strip, satirizing banker's attitudes to most of the major financial, political and sporting stories of the day. It also targets the changes that have occurred in the business world in the last twenty years, such as the rise of political correctness, the increase in rules and regulations, and changes in technology. The cartoonists receive a lot of material from bankers themselves, and many of the situations they poke fun at in the comic are based on real occurrences.
It is a gag-a-day strip, and has no overarching meta-plot or story, but will occasionally have longer story arcs lasting for anything up to a month. The comic is set firmly within the real world (other than fictitious bank names), but does have some dream and fantasy sequences, such as when Alex and his colleague Clive are put in charge of [
The comic has been running in the pages of ''[[British Newspapers|The Independent]]'' since 1987, then ''[[British Newspapers|The Daily Telegraph]]'' from 1992, and the strip has been duplicated on the Web since 1999. It has always updated five days a week (Monday to Friday) without fail, matching the newspaper copy, although it takes a short break whenever the cartoonists have a holiday, as the strips are drawn the day before publication.
The archive is very badly designed, so the first strip on the Web can be found [
Has an [[Audio Adaptation]] on [[Classic FM]].
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* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: The early strips often featured a match seller Alex would verbally joust with. He vanished without trace after a couple of years.
* [[Elseworld]]: A one-off strip made for the British Library's "Hold The Front Page" exhibition reimagined Alex for [[World War Two]]. In this strip Alex has a [[Dashingly Dapper Derby|bowler hat]] and moustache, and is talking about [[The Home Front|rationing and the Blitz]].
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'''Alex''': Naturally. I went short on insurance stock when the first bombs fell -- made myself a fortune! }}
* [[Girlfriend in Canada]]: While at university, Clive used to claim he had a 'girlfriend in London'.
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