Mustard Magazine
I’ve finally had the chance to sit down and read the latest issue of comedy magazine Mustard, and I just thought I’d point it out to anyone who happened to be passing.
I first picked up Mustard in some comic shop and laughed throughout my train journey home (to the point where someone complained to the conductor! Well I was sitting in first class… and everyone knows that no one in first class has a sense of humour).
Anyway the latest issue is the first of a relaunch - featuring some new content (including a lengthy piece with Father Ted, The IT Crowd genius Graham Linehan) and a sort of “best of” collection of pieces from the magazine’s earlier incarnation. The new version is more professionally designed and has big splashes of colour. Nice.
There’s a lot of very funny and very clever stuff in here as well as some very funny, very stupid, stuff as well, which, obviously, are the bits that appeal most to me. There’s a couple of good superhero spoofs, I particularly liked “Middle Man”, and a general cross over between geekdom and comedy.
It’s not expensive, it’s small press publishing, and it’s funny.