Education
In Manhattan, Bassford studied at the School of Industrial Art (which later became the High School of Art and Design), and he entered the commercial art field in the early 1950s with magazine gag cartoons and packaging art for toy boxes.
In Manhattan, Bassford studied at the School of Industrial Art (which later became the High School of Art and Design), and he entered the commercial art field in the early 1950s with magazine gag cartoons and packaging art for toy boxes.
In 1975, Bassford settled in Cold Spring, New New York The client list for Bassford"s advertising art includes Disney, General Electric, International Business Machines Corporation, Nestle, People"s Bank and Waldenbooks. Over decades, he continued to do cartoons and illustrations for corporate audio-visual advertising art presentations, such as a slide show of 79 cartoons for General Electric Lighting and 36 cartoons for a People"s Bank promotion.
He returned to comics in 1986 when he teamed with Pearson on the story "Daddy"s Little Girl" for Lurid Tales, published by Eros Comix, an imprint of Fantagraphics.