Alex Graham
Alexander S. Graham (born March 2, 1917 in Partick, Glasgow , Scotland as Alexander Steel Graham , † December 4, 1991 in London , England ) was a British cartoonist and comic artist . Became well-known he is by his Fred Basset - comic strips that run in the German speaking today under the title "root".
biography
Alex Graham attended Dumfries Academy and the Glasgow School of Art . During World War II , he served in the British Army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Infantry Regiment .
After the war, he started selling his cartoons to magazines like New Yorker .
In 1945 he invented his first long-term successful comic strip, Wee Hughie , for DC Thompson's Dundee Weekly News , which he continued into the 1960s. He also drew other comic strips for various magazines, including Briggs the Buttler for Tatler Weekly for 17 years .
On July 9, 1963, Graham began work on the character with which he would be most associated: Fred Basset , better known in Germany as Wurzel , a basset hound. This comic strip appeared in the Daily Mail until his death in 1991 . The series is still continued today by Michael Martin based on ideas from Alex Graham's daughter Arran.
Alex Graham died on December 4, 1991 at the age of 78.
Web links
- Fred Basset on GoComics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/graham_alex.htm
- ↑ https://alexikon.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/alex-graham-ein-hund-namens-wurzel/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graham, Alex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graham, Alexander Steel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Partick, Glasgow , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1991 |
| Place of death | London , England , UK |