Alex (comic strip)
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Alex is a British cartoon strip by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor. It first appeared in the short-lived London Daily News in 1987. It moved to The Independent later that year and then to The Daily Telegraph in 1992. A translated version was published in the German newspaper Financial Times Deutschland.[1] It was also published translated into Dutch for some years in the main financial newspaper of the Netherlands, Het Financieele Dagblad (FD), around the turn of the century.
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![]() Alex, Clive and their wives in a strip from 2010, dwelling on the World Cup | |
Author(s) | Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor |
Current status/schedule | Ongoing |
Launch date | 1987 |
Publisher(s) | London Daily News (1987), The Independent (1987-1992), The Daily Telegraph (1992-present) |
Genre(s) | Satirical, Gag-a-day |
The strip with its storylines-with-a-twist proved so popular that, in the course of its transfer to the Telegraph, it was preceded by a nationwide billboard campaign.
The strip occurs in 'real-time', i.e. time passes and characters age and develop as in real life. Alex and Penny married in the strip's early days and had a son called Christopher, who grew up, went to school, had work experience and has now started college. Alex and Penny themselves are now middle-aged.