Alex Graham (cartoonist)
Alexander Steel Graham (2 March 1917 – 3 December 1991)[1] was a Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip Fred Basset.
Biography
Alexander Steel Graham was born in Partick, Glasgow, and educated at Dumfries Academy.[1] 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.[2] It has since been syndicated around the world.[2] [3]
He provided a series of humourous cartoons for the Gas Council's Sales Training Manual, mostly featuring a hapless salesman in his interactions with potential customer housewives.[4]
Graham died on 3 December 1991 in Ticehurst, East Sussex, aged 73.
References
- ^ a b "Alex Graham".
- ^ a b Maria Esposito. "Fred Basset is back". C21 Media. Retrieved 27 March 2007.
- ^ "Fred Basset". Toonhound. Retrieved 11 March 2007.
- ^ Knights, Chas. C. (1957). The Gas Council's Sales Training Manual. London: The Gas Council.
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