Alex Musson

CREATOR / EDITOR / WRITER / DESIGNER / PUBLISHER / TEA-BOY
I started a black & white version of Mustard back in 2001, putting together the photocopied magazines in my spare time around my day-job of website design.
I also wrote and performed sketches for BBC Radio 1 and scripted comic books for FutureQuake magazine. Between 2002 and 2003 I performed stand-up (making the BBC New Talent semi-finals) and improv (with Isy Suttie and Andrew O'Neill), and regularly appeared on panel quiz Competetive News Bonanza.
In 2006 I started the new colour, professionally printed Mustard magazines that you can buy on this website and in shops. I published four of those over a year and a half before the recession hit, which killed off many indie mags. Mustard was forced into hibernation for a couple of years.
Having made myself skint, I went back full time to my day job of website design. But I soon got back into comedy writing, having beeen comissioned by my Alan Moore to write two pages per issue for his new magazine Dodgem Logic. This reinvigorated me on the writing front and helped me build up new content, and so Mustard reappered in December 2010 with issue #05 – three months after the birth of my son, Thomas.
Child-rearing and the need to earn more money to support a family has kept new Mustard issues to a slower schedule. Issue #06 came out in June 2011, and issue #07 in July 2012. The next issue, #08, will probably have to be the final issue, and I hope to get it out in early 2013. After that I plan to collect all eight issues into a couple of books, probably via a print-to-order website.
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) - - - - -
- 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)
- - - - - - Richard Pryor in The Good Life (issue #05)
- Grammar Shortage (issue #05)
- Olympic stadium is secret space ark (issue #05)
- New Gods of office technology appointed (issue #05)
- Pasta-Antipasta explosion (issue #05)
- Baseball invented to help men talk about sex (issue #05)
- First clay pigeon bred in captivity (issue #05)
- - - - - - EAT brand inspires copycats (issue #06)
- Catholics introduce reward card scheme (issue #06)
- DVD addiction ravages middle class (issue #06)
- Kittens and Talk Radio Could Solve Energy Crisis (issue #06)
- Ugly people to get better parking spaces (issue #06)
- Catholic church introduces reward card (issue #06) - - - - -
- FacePalm: the undo button for life (issue #07)
- Worrying Rise in Mobile Use by Under-Zeros (issue #07)
- Linguist Discovers Perfect Photo Caption (issue #07)
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)
- Film: Remade movie titles (issue #05)
- Street Games (issue #07) - With Russ Flinn)
- Horoscopes by Agnes McScratch (issue #07)
- "William H Macy" and other swear word substitutes (issue #07)
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)
- Night of the Living Dead Poets Society (issue #06 - Art by Simon Cooper)
- Withnail & I, Robot (issue #06 - Art by Andrew Waugh)
- Queen takes Bishop (issue #06 - Art by Andrew Waugh)
- You've Got Male (issue #06 - Art by Heidi Spets)
- The Grapes of Wrath of Khan (issue #07)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Teenwolf (issue #07)
Spoof Magazine Covers
- Celebrity Brains (issue #03)
- Mindfuck (issue #03)
- Vague (#05)
- Angry Loner Monthly (#05)

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)
- Freudian Slip (issue #06)
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) - Reservoir Nuns
(issue #05 -Art by Andrew Waugh) - 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) - Shallow Grave Ending (issue #07 - Art by Andrew Waugh)
- Sci-Fi Big Love (issue #07 - Art by Andrew Waugh)
Minis
- Headline News I (issue #01)
- Cartoon: Clothes / No Clothes (issue #03)
- Cartoon: Animals that come with their own cutlery (issue #06 - Art by Heidi Spets)
- Puzzle: Mandelbrotu (issue #06)
- Headlines: Cricket rules / Northampton Tube / Scarf Ace (issue #06)
- Headlines: On PS3, on Xbox, Ennui / What larks / Your days are numbered (issue #06)
- Headlines: Reasonable demands / Britain sells NHS to America / Morrisey dancers (issue #06)
- Headlines: Enid Blyton Fetish / House Wine / Pet Dispensary / Pie Charts / Alpha Male or Beta Max / Pop Quorn / In The Soaps / Bible Belt(issue #07)
Posters
- Alan Moore A2-size poster (based on Mustard #04 cover, comissioned by The IT Crowd)
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)
- Stewart Lee (issue #05)
- John Lloyd (issue #06)
- Robin Ince (issue #07)
THE SHORT ONES (1-2 PAGES)
- Laughterinoddplaces (issue #01)
- Matt Berry & Rich Fulcher (issue #02)
- Terry Gilliam (the old b&w issues)
- The Comedy Store Players (the old b&w issues)
- Shannon 'Too Much Coffee Man' Wheeler (the old b&w issues)
Profiles
- Monty Python's Family Tree (issue #02)
- Douglas Adams (issue #06)
- Peter Cook (with Peter Gordon)
'Cult Corner' Reviews
- Fandango (80s road movie) (issue #01)
- Frontline (Oz newsroom satire) (issue #02)
- 2000AD (comic) (coming soon)
- Neon (movie magazine) (coming soon)









