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Red Ketchup


Red Ketchup is a cult Quebec comic book series featuring FBI’s crazed rogue agent, Steve “Red” Ketchup. The series was created by Pierre Fournier and Réal Godbout, and will soon be adapted into a live action feature film by Martin Villeneuve for GO Films in Montreal.

Steve “Red” Ketchup — an albino empowered by chemical means — is a former police officer, now FBI agent. Ruthless and violent combatant, skilled in both armed and unarmed fighting techniques, he appears to be invulnerable, apparently through a combination of being incredibly fit, having a high pain threshold, and drug overdose. This antihero, with his Grace Jones style red hairdo, always wearing a blue suit and sunglasses, has been vaguely inspired by Jack Lord from the Hawaii Five-O TV series, and Michael Murphy (Brewster McCloud). Ketchup is a veteran of the Vietnam War.

Red Ketchup first appeared in 1982 as a supporting character in the popular Michel Risque comics series by Pierre Fournier and Réal Godbout, published as a monthly serial in the legendary humor magazine Croc. Unexpectedly, the character was an instant hit with readers. The early Red Ketchup adventures were first collected into graphic novels in the late 80’s by Croc Publishing of Montreal and Dargaud of France. The entire collection is currently in print for the French-speaking world from La Pastèque of Montreal.


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