Alexander Steel Graham (2 March 1917 – 3 December 1991)[1] was a Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip Fred Basset.
Alexander Steel Graham was born in Partick, Glasgow, and educated at Dumfries Academy.
'Wee Hughie' appeared in 1945 in D C Thomson's Weekly News and ran for twenty years.
[2] [3] He provided a series of humorous 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.