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
Compact (newspaper) which both broadsheet and compact version were produced simultaneously. "The Independent" published its last paper edition on 20 March 2016 and now appears on-line only. The term "compact" was coined in the 1970s by the "Daily Mail" when that newspaper moved to a tabloid format, although the "Mail" now calls itself a tabloid. "Compact" is used to differentiate newspapers with more traditional content from those with a flamboyant or salacious publishing style, even though they may share the same size. The functional opposite of "compact" is "red top", as the nameplates of British sensationalist tabloids tend to be red. Compact