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Alex Musson
CREATOR/EDITOR/WRITER/DESIGNER/TEA-BOY
I started Mustard in 2001, putting together the black & white photocopied magazines in my spare time around my day-job as a web designer. I did six of those issues, each one getting bigger and better.
In 2008, I decided to have a go at 'doing it properly' and only work the day job three days a week (I'm a freelancer, so I could do that) in order to spend the other days working on Mustard. The result was the new, professionally printed, colour issues that are sold in shops. After four of those colour issues, I had to put Mustard in hibernation due to the recession. I've now got 80% of issue #05 ready and hope to print it in mid to late 2010. I've also got parts of #06 and #07 written or planned out.
Meanwhile, Mustard has been given a new lease of life as a series of A4 double-page spreads in each issue of Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic magazine.
I've also written and performed sketches for BBC Radio 1 and scripted comic book scripts for FutureQuake magazine. Between 2002 and 2003 I also performed stand-up (making the BBC New Talent semi-finals) and improv around the country, and regularly appeared as a panelist on the Competetive News Bonanza quiz.
You can contact me on 07958 799763 or at laugh@alexmusson.com.
Spoof News:
- Lethargy generator found under bed (issue #01)
- Nanatechnology will consume world by 2020 (issue #01)
- Girl on train is soul mate in fellow passenger's imagination (issue #01)
- Headline News I (issue #01)
- - - - - - Decisive victory for Allies (issue #02)
- Occultist opens gateway to Hull (issue #02)
- Sub-editors welcome hypostrophe (issue #02)
- Apathy march (issue #02)
- Men feel pressure of media portrayal (issue #02)
- New York miming disaster (issue #02)
- - - - - - Jet-powered car breaks speed of smell (issue #03)
- Picture only tells 743 words (issue #03)
- Water towers double as monster-pacification devices (issue #03)
- Final display for stuffed poor (issue #03)
- Headline News III (issue #03)
- - - - - - World's worst serial killer (issue #04)
- Four horseman split: apocalypse cancelled (issue #04)
- Cruel prank targets nation's arsewits (issue #04 - With Andrew O'Neill)
- Harsh tube lightng used to curb overpopulation (issue #04)
- Ugly man actually just a bit pixellated (issue #04)
- Lock of John Lennon's hair auctioned (issue #04)
- News event: attractive young women involved somehow (issue #04)
- Miles/km exchange rate rockets (issue #04)
Spoof Articles
- TV: All time greatest spin-offs (issue #01)
- TV: Sitcomland (issue #01)
- Writer's room (issue #01)
- When is it okay to laugh and point? An easy guide (issue #01)
Characters & Stories
- Derring Dos & Don'ts I: Animals (issue #01 - With RALPH ASPINALL)
- Derring Dos & Don'ts #2: Females (issue #02 - With RALPH ASPINALL)
- Writer's Block: The Invention of Time Travel (issue #04)
Spoof Movie Posters
- Them vs IT (issue #01 - Art by Adrian Bamforth)
- Kramer vs Kramer (issue #02)
- Dirty Harry Krishna (issue #04)
- Casablanketyblank (issue #04)
Spoof Magazine Covers
- Celebrity Brains (issue #03)
- Mindfuck (issue #03)
- Vague (coming soon)
- Pleasures of the Flush, (coming soon)
- Angry Loner Monthly (coming soon)
- Reservoir Nuns (coming soon)
- Lord of the Things (coming soon)
Spoof Ads
- Jumper Removal Quandary (issue #01)
- Anal's Retentive (issue #02)
- Powdered H20 (issue #03)
- Religious breakfast cereals (issue #04)
- Greed fridge (issue #04)
- J-Lo: the new diet joint (issue #04)
Comic strips (scripts)
- Superhero-Men I: Middle-Man
(issue #01 -Art by Mike Donaldson) - Superhero-Men II: Elephant Man
(issue #01 -Art by Mike Donaldson) - Myth Management I:
Going Underground
(issue #03 -Art by Mike Donaldson) - Myth Management II:
The Rythm is Gonna Get You
(coming soon -Art by Mike Donaldson) - Myth Management III:
We Don't Need Another Hero
(coming soon -Art by Mike Donaldson)
Cartoons
- Clothes / No Clothes (issue #03)
Interviews
THE BIG ONES (8-16 PAGES)
- Graham Linehan (issue #01)
- Michael Palin (issue #02)
- Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong (issue #03)
- Alan Moore (issue #04)
THE SHORT ONES (1-2 PAGES)
- Laughterinoddplaces (issue #01)
- Matt Berry & Rich Fulcher (issue #02)
- Terry Gilliam (the old b&w issues)
- Shannon 'Too Much Coffee Man' Wheeler (the old b&w issues)
- The Comedy Store Players (the old b&w issues)
Profiles
- Monty Python's Family Tree (issue #02)
- Peter Cook (with Peter Gordon)
- Douglas Adams
'Cult Corner' Reviews