Career
In a 1953 cartoon for The New Yorker he originated the phrase "Take me to your leader". He was educated at the Dumfries Academy. Graham"s best known creation, Fred Basset, is a comic strip about a male basset hound.
The cartoon was published first in the Daily Mail on 8 July 1963.
lieutenant has since been syndicated around the world. Fred was published in the United Kingdom newspaper Daily Mail and more recently The Mail On Sunday from 1963 to the present.
Alex Graham died on 3 December 1991 (aged 78).
