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 On 5 May 1946, the "Daily Mail" celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Winston Churchill was the chief guest at the banquet and toasted it with a speech. Newsprint rationing in the Second World War had forced the "Daily Mail" to cut its size to four pages, but the size gradually increased through the 1950s. The "Daily Mail" was transformed by its editor during the 1970s and 1980s, David English. He had been editor of the "Daily Sketch" from 1969 to 1971, when it closed. Part of the same group from 1953, the "Sketch" was absorbed by its sister title, and English