Fred Basset Fred Basset Fred Basset is a comic strip about a male basset hound. The cartoon was created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham and published first in the "Daily Mail" on 8 July 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world. Fred's cartoon strips are renamed as "Wurzel" in Germany, "Lillo il Cane Saggio" (Lillo the wise dog) in Italy, "Lorang" in Norway, "Laban" in Sweden and "Retu", "Pitko" or "Koiraskoira" in Finland. "Fred Basset" has been published in the United Kingdom newspaper "Daily Mail", and latterly "The Mail On Sunday", from 1963 to the present. Alex Graham based Fred
Daily Mail the latter titled the "Continental Daily Mail", covering Europe and North Africa. The newspaper entered India on 16 November 2007 with the launch of "Mail Today", a 48-page compact size newspaper printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida with a print run of 110,000 copies. Based around a subscription model, the newspaper has the same fonts and feel as the "Daily Mail" and was set up with investment from Associated Newspapers and editorial assistance from the "Daily Mail" newsroom. The "Mail" has traditionally been a supporter of the Conservatives and has endorsed this party in all recent general elections. While the