Fred Basset on VHS. 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
Daily Mail special trains to bring the London-printed papers north). The same production method was adopted in 1909 by the "Daily Sketch", in 1927 by the "Daily Express" and eventually by virtually all the other national newspapers. Printing of the "Scottish Daily Mail" was switched from Edinburgh to the Deansgate plant in Manchester in 1968 and, for a while, "The People" was also printed on the "Mail" presses in Deansgate. In 1987, printing at Deansgate ended and the northern editions were thereafter printed at other Associated Newspapers plants. In 1906 the paper offered £10,000 for the first flight from London to Manchester,