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Alex Musson

Taller Than Jesus

Alex Musson

CREATOR / EDITOR / WRITER / DESIGNER / PUBLISHER / TEA-BOY

Hello, I'm Alex, creator of Mustard magazine. I edit, design and publish the mag (and this website) and write about half of each issue.

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 went into hibernation and reappered in December 2010 with issue #05.

Issue #06 followed in June 2011, and there's two more issues in the works. I've also been writing for Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic and working at the day job.

You can contact me on 07958 799763 or at laugh@alexmusson.com.

My articles and images in the colour Mustards:

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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)

Spoof Articles

Characters & Stories

Spoof Movie Posters

Spoof Magazine Covers

Armchair Psychologist

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)

Minis

  • 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)

Posters

Interviews

THE BIG ONES (8-16 PAGES)

THE SHORT ONES (1-2 PAGES)

Profiles

'Cult Corner' Reviews

  • Fandango (80s road movie) (issue #01)
  • Frontline (Oz newsroom satire) (issue #02)
  • 2000AD (comic) (coming soon)
  • Neon (movie magazine) (coming soon)