Fred Basset by Alex Graham for July 17, 2023

You made it unanimous Fred…wait for a nicer day!

A bad day to choose for a beach outing for sure. Fred, if I were you I’d head to the car as a suggestion to leave and go back another time. Chances are good the day won’t get any better.

I hope we have lots of reruns.

Yup, still cold and wet here, so I don’t blame you…..

Fred is adopted into a new family ?

Unusual drawing !?

Have we started over with the original strips, by the oroginal artist?

This is new to me.

Must be low tide.

The only problem is: Very little swimming takes place in the British Isles for that exact same reason ! ! !

I see this was before wetsuits were made. A good 7mm wetsuit takes the chill out of swimming in cool weather, though one does some fancy dance steps when getting one on.

There’s no place to modestly change anyway.

I’d like to be where the Dears and Fred are. Too hot right now

Why don’t we all just go home!!!

Hiding in the lee side of the rock, hoping for a little sun.

This is great.

More classics :D

At least they have a rock to shelter behind! (Now, THEY’VE changed since the beginning!)

Found this: https://www.original-political-cartoon.com/cartoon-gallery/artists/graham-alex-1917-1991/

Think you all need to be in front of a nice warm fireplace

Looks like they should have picked a better day ………. :)

Hope Fred continues, one of my favorites. Been following him for a while now and knew the original artist had died. Would hate to see it stopped, still enjoy these old ones.