Alex Graham (cartoonist)

Alexander S. Graham (Patrick, Glasgow, 2 March 1917 – 4 December 1991) was a British cartoonist who created the comic strip, Fred Basset.

He was educated at the Dumfries Academy.

Graham's best known creation, Fred Basset, is a comic strip about a male basset hound. The cartoon was published first in the Daily Mail on 8 July 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world.

Fred was published in the UK newspaper Daily Mail and more recently The Mail On Sunday from 1963 to the present.

Alex Graham died on 3 December 1991 (aged 78).

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