Every Monday (well, most of them) we feature a favourite Alex cartoon selected by our readers.

It’s Wimbledon fortnight, which gave us the chance to feature this tennis cartoon from 1992.

One can’t be a satirist of British culture without doing jokes about people grumbling about the weather. In this cartoon, however, the convention is reversed and Rupert is complaining about an unexpected outbreak of good weather during Wimbledon fortnight. Back in the 1990s consistent sunshine was a rare thing in July in the UK and the chances of getting through a whole two weeks of tennis without losing a few days’ play to rain were slim (the Centre Court didn’t even gain a roof until 2009).

Alex and his fellow bankers actually liked a bit of rain at Wimbledon, as they preferred to sit in the bank’s hospitably tent drinking, talking business and following the cricket or the racing on the TV instead of watching tennis - provided of course that it wasn’t also raining wherever the Test match was being played. Taking up one’s seat in the courts and actually watching the designated sport of the occasion was something that they largely left to their plus-ones (ie their wives). The idea that enormous amounts of (someone else’s) money had been spent on these corporate debentures appealed to Alex and he relished the idea that tennis fans at home would view his empty seat in the sold-out Centre Court on the TV coverage with teeth-gnashing envy and annoyance.

Despite tennis tending not to be their employees’ preferred sport, banks still saw Wimbledon as a prestigious occasion at which to raise their corporate profile. Back in the Twentieth Century Megabank’s clients would have been overwhelmingly male, but this was an excellent hospitality occasion (along with the Chelsea Flower Show) to appease their wives. In today’s corporate world women are more likely to be in senior positions and so qualify to be invited to Wimbledon in their own right, but compliance has cracked down on entertainment to such an extent that such invitations are less likely to be forthcoming.

This cartoon of course relies on the reader’s expectation in the first three frames that Rupert and Alex are talking about bad weather: something that we may not be able to take for granted in an age when nine of the top ten hottest years ever recorded occurred in the last decade and we have just experienced a record-breaking heatwave. Corporate sponsors have presumably had to rethink their products in this era of climate change that has led to rain-uninterrupted Wimbledons: switching their supply of branded merchandise to sun hats and fans and maybe repurposing corporate umbrellas as parasols.

If you’ve got any suggestions for a favourite cartoon for future inclusion please email us. And do tell us if there’s a particular reason why it appealed to you.