Based on the pop­u­lar Daily Tele­graph comic strip of the same name by Charles Peat­tie and Rus­sell Tay­lor. Break­Thru has worked with Charles and Rus­sell to bring Alex off the page and on to your screens.

Alex has been shot, kid­napped, run over, abducted by aliens and marooned in the Ama­zon rain­for­est. He’s endured two weeks as a home­less per­son on the streets of new York (a team-building exer­cise), been called to the priest­hood by God (he declined) and he’s had vivid night­mares about being a pupil at Hog­warts, of going down with the Titanic and of being employed, igno­min­iously, as a milk­man. For the most part none of these expe­ri­ences have dented his blink­ered com­pla­cency or wholly mer­ce­nary atti­tude to life.

Sev­eral ‘real’ peo­ple have made appear­ances in the strip: Tony Blair, Prince Charles, Prince William, Nicola Hor­lic, Martha Lane-Fox, Rob­bie Williams, and Bill Clinton.

In 2002, cre­ators Charles and Rus­sell were awarded MBEs for ser­vices to the news­pa­per indus­try. More infor­ma­tion about the Alex comic strip is avail­able at the alex car­toon website.