Alex Graham from Dumfries was the man behind the Fred Basset series which is still running today.
"People wrote in and said: "What is this extraordinary creature?" explained Arran.
"Then when Freda died my father himself bought another basset hound, the second Freda, and that was how it all started." "When we were children and he didn't have a separate, purpose-built studio, we as children had to be in total silence in the house because dad was thinking.He did that for the best part of 30 years before his death in the early 1990s, described as a "gentle genius" by the Daily Mail."I think some people might have thought of dad as a dour Scot, he didn't show his humour openly," said Arran.
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