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The Best of Alex 2008
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A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
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A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
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The Best of "Alex" 2002 (Alex)
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The Best of Alex 2006
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Russell TaylorCharles Peattie;
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A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
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The Best of Alex 2005
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Russell TaylorCharles Peattie;
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Customer Reviews
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
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A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
A Masterley Production, 03 Apr 2008
I first came across Alex, that cynical, worldly wise - but never weary - and manipulative investment banker, when he appeared in "The Independent" after the Big bang in 1986, and followed him to the Telegraph when it became clear that the people he was supposed to be satirising loved him.
In 2007 Alex continues to do battle with Cyrus, his tee-total, born-again American boss, with whom he conspires to be trapped in a crevasse while skiing - but only so he can have some time to talk up his bonus. He also moves buildings and bags the best desk, dreams (as he does come Christmas time) a VC takeover of Santa's Lapland company, has cosmetic surgery (and excuses his bruising as being the result of boxing - or was that botox-ing?), and, at the end, smells the first whiff of the "sub-prime" credit crunch.
Some of the jokes require a recollection of what was happenning in the City at the time, but I can still chuckle at my first Alex annual published back in 1988 - "The Unabashed Alex". Let me relate two of the jokes:
"I've put us both down for the combat survival zone combat game this weekend, Clive...
"We'll be in the corporate finance team playing against a team made up of those spivs and wide boys from the Metrobank Moneybroking Department...
In the final panel you see the spivs and wide boys charging Alex and colleagues with paintball guns at the ready, and Alex orders:
"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their socks."
Second favourite: A more typical four-panel cartoon, wih the typical twist in the tail in the fourth, has Alex and boss Rupert talking at the (wine) bar:
Rupert does all the talking:
"When you're young it's fanatically important what sort of car you're seen to be driving...
"Take your BMW, Alex... it isn't simply a means of transport, it's a symbol of your position in society, your manhood...
"But when you get to my age and position, things like that appear silly and trifling, a car really ceases to have value as a status symbol...
"That's why I got the helicopter."
Boom boom! Brilliant stuff! Beg steal or borrow!
Always fun, 01 Jan 2006
Alex is the only cartoon that I make a point of reading regularly, and this annual - like the others before it - is very enjoyable. I'm never sure whether these collections, entitled "Best Of", contain all of the cartoons for a year, but this one has 228 cartoons which I guess (taking into account weekends and holidays) is probably all of them.
As with any long-running cartoon series, some of the themes and jokes are repeated or predictable, such as the seemingly endless stream of cartoons about annual bonuses. Nevertheless, they always try to have new storylines which keeps the series surprisingly fresh.
Fun as always, 15 Apr 2005
Alex is one of my favourite cartoons and the annual books are well worth getting. The situations this year are quite varied with Alex being out of Megabank, and the authors' inventiveness is given full rein. The book itself is well produced and good quality, well worth the asking price. Get it while it's available, they tend to become unavailable all to soon!
Same great fun as every year !!!, 14 Oct 2004
"Best of Alex 2004" is a collection of the great Alex cartoons. Peatty and Taylor show the real, hard live of an Investmentbanker with great humour. Unfortunately, because of Alex being unepmloyed, most the cartoons in the current issue de not take place at a bank, but in many other businesses Alex was look down all the years before. Again, great fun, great satire!
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