Alex Graham
Alexander Steel Graham (2 March 1917 – 3 December 1991) was a Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip Fred Basset.
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Alex Graham
- Born
- 1917 · Glasgow.
- Died
- 1991 · United Kingdom.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- cartoonist · comics artist
- Education
- Dumfries Academy
- Languages
- English
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Alexander Steel Graham was born in Partick, Glasgow, and educated at Dumfries Academy. He studied under William Hutchison at the Glasgow School of Art. During the war he served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, seeing action in Normandy - two of Graham's war drawings are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum in London. 'Wee Hughie' appeared in 1945 in D C Thomson's Weekly News and ran for twenty years. 'Briggs the Butler' became a fixture in Tatler. Graham drew regularly for Punch and had a series, 'The Eavesdropper,' in The New Yorker. He produced many collections of his cartoons, including 'Graham's Golf Club' and 'Daughter in the House'. Graham's best known creation, Fred Basset, is a comic strip about a thinking Basset Hound which began in the Daily Mail on 8 July 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world. He provided a series of humorous cartoons for the Gas Council's Sales Training Manual, mostly featuring a hapless salesman in his interactions with potential customer housewives. Graham died on 3 December 1991 in Ticehurst, East Sussex, aged 73.
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1917
Alex Graham born at Glasgow.
1991
Alex Graham died at United Kingdom.
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- 1.Alex Graham.
- 2.Maria Esposito. Fred Basset is back. C21 Media.
- 3.Toonhound. Fred Basset.
- 4.Knights, Chas. C. The Gas Council's Sales Training Manual. The Gas Council. 1957.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Please Sir I've Broken My Arm (1959)
- The Doctor and the Eavesdropper (1964)
- Graham's Golf Club (1965)
- Oh Sidney Not the Walnut Tree (1966)
- To the Office and Back (1967)
- Normally I Never Touch It (1968)
- Daughter in the House (1969)
- All the Other Men Have Mellowed (1974)
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