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 edge in publishing news stories sourced out of China, but also led to questions of censorship regarding politically sensitive topics. In November 2016, Lego ended a series of promotions in the paper which had run for years following campaigning from a group called 'Stop Funding Hate', who were unhappy with the "Mail"'s coverage of migrant issues and the EU referendum. The "Scottish Daily Mail" was published as a separate title from Edinburgh starting in December 1946. The circulation was poor though, falling to below 100,000 and the operation was rebased to Manchester in December 1968. In 1995 the "Scottish Daily