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
The Mail (newspaper) The Mail (newspaper) The Mail, known as The Madras Mail till 1928, was an English-language daily evening newspaper published in the Madras Presidency (later Madras State, and then, Tamil Nadu) from 1868 to 1981. It is the first evening newspaper in India. The "Madras Mail" was started two journalists Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish on 14 December 1868. Lawson and Cornish had earlier served as editors in "The Madras Times" before resigning from editorship after a tiff-off with Gantz & Sons which owned the newspaper. Soon, the "Madras Mail" emerged as a formidable rival to both "The Madras Times" as