Cartoon By Alex Graham

Most people are familiar with the comic strip Fred Basset, about a male basset hound. The cartoon was created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham. As a kid I really enjoyed reading the adventures of Fred Bassett in the local newspaper The Sun. The strip was published first in the Daily Mail on 8 July 1963, and it is still being syndicated around the world. Sadly Alex Graham is no longer with us, he died in 1991.

Here is an early cartoon he produced for the UK magazine Punch, dated 20 July 1955, well before he created the strip Fred Bassett.

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