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''Fred Basset'' is a comic strip about a male basset hound. The cartoon was created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham and published first in the ''Daily Mail'' on 8 July 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world.〔 Fred Basset has been published in the United Kingdom newspaper ''Daily Mail'' and more recently ''The Mail On Sunday'' from 1963 to the present.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Fred Basset )〕 Alex Graham, the creator and cartoonist based Fred on his own dog Frieda and drew over 9000 comic strips. Alex Graham died on 3 December 1991. Fred's cartoon strips are renamed as ''Wurzel'' in Germany, ''Lillo il Cane Saggio'' (Lillo the wise dog) in Italy, ''Lorang'' in Norway, ''Laban'' in Sweden and ''Retu'', ''Pitko'' or ''Koiraskoira'' in Finland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Titles of Over 230 Comics in Finnish )〕 == The comic strip == Fred's owners are a middle-aged husband and wife, who are not given names in the strip. The husband is a professional worker in the City of London; he enjoys socialising at his local pubs, The Swan and The Chequers. He is shown often as being temperamental and spends much free time reading the newspaper, walking Fred and playing golf. The wife manages the house and the family, and has a busy life socialising with friends. She is shown several times as being a bad driver with many accidents with the family car. Known relations to the family are "her rich eccentric" Uncle Albert, and her sisters, one in UK and one overseas. A new relation introduced during the mid-1990s was mentioned as "her Aunt Flo." There are not any children in Fred's immediate family, although Amanda and the Tucker Twins appear regularly. The names and areas pictured are made from places and people Alex Graham knew, areas are said to resemble Scotland. Family friends' names would be used, as was Tinker's Wood, taken from a house Graham lived in. Topical references are kept to a minimum; one mention to The Beatles and the family's continually recovered lounge sofa suite are the few giveaways of its age. There are mentions to New Year during 1970 and 1971 and 1 January 1973 when the UK entered the common market. The Michael Martin era strips have more topical references and mention of modern appliances, such as mobile phones and a microwave oven. Later strips by Michael Martin feature some popular culture references such as ''Am I Bovvered'' featured in the 2008 annual. The strips do not generally feature follow-on storylines; a rare storyline with Fred staying at Jock's house or Uncle Albert staying a few days are the only times the story extends beyond the one strip format. A variant of this are basic themed strips for Christmas or their Summer Holiday with no continuation. Again, later Michael Martin strips do follow on for a few days, as with a Birthday Party mentioned in the 1997 book. The more recent strips have occasional follow-on stories such as a Summer Holiday, or buying a new car. The first copyright dates (then for Associated Newspapers) were added to the cartoon strips during 1969. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Basset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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