Redeye (comics)

Redeye was a comic strip created by cartoonist Gordon Bess that was syndicated by King Features Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers. The strip debuted on September 11, 1967.

Redeye is a comic about a tribe of Native Americans during the 19th century, portraying the Indians in a similar way as what Hägar the Horrible did with the Vikings. It has also been compared to Tumbleweeds.

Bess wrote and drew the strip from 1967 until 1988, when he was forced by illness to pass it on to Bill Yates (writing) and Mel Casson (artwork). Casson took over both roles in 1999 when Bill Yates became ill. Yates died in 2001. Casson continued the strip alone from 1999 until his own death in May 2008. Casson was not replaced, and publication ended as submitted material ran out. The strip came to an end on July 13, 2008.

In recent years, a small number of newspapers have been carrying the strip on Sundays only, reprinting from the 1988-99 Yates/Casson era.

Beginning in 1968, Redeye was collected in paperbacks published by Saalfield Publishing.

Redeye was especially popular in Europe, where it appeared in Tintin magazine between 1969 and 1990 and received the 1976 Best Foreign Comical Work Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Plume d'oeuf, in Le Républicain Lorrain (newspaper) from circa 1968 until this day

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