Alex Graham (Alexander S Graham) was a British cartoonist best known as the creator of the cartoon strip "Fred Basset". He was educated in Dumfries at the academy there.
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.[1] It has since been syndicated around the world.[1]
Fred is published in the UK newspaper Daily Mail and more recently The Mail On Sunday from 1963 to the present.[2] Alex Graham, the creator and cartoonist based Fred on his own dog Frieda and drew over 9000 comic strips.
Alex Graham died on 3 December 1991.