Alex (comic strip)

Alex
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

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.

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.