Redeye (comics)

''Redeye'' is 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, and ran until July 13, 2008.

Publication history

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.

Characters and story

''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''.
* Redeye, overweight chief of the Chickiepan tribe.
* Tanglefoot, a cowardly and stupid warrior who is in love with Redeye's daughter.
* Mawsquaw, a bossy, very overweight wife who is a terrible cook.
* Tawnee, Redeye's beautiful daughter.
* Pokey, Redeye's younger son, a practical joker.
* Granny, Redeye's liquors-hungry widowed mother (sometimes known as Minnie).
* A medicine man who is only interested in playing golf and seducing the nurse.
* Jerkymiah, an extremely dirty, bearded trapper.
* Various talking animals, including Loco, Redeye's steed.

Books

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

Awards

''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.

Translations

* Danish: ''Rødøje'', some albums by Carlsen Verlag
* Dutch: ''Roodvoet het Indiaantje'' in the Flemish newspaper ''Het Laatste Nieuws'' in 1968, and ''Roodoog'' in ''Kuifje'', the Dutch translation of ''Tintin'', and in 9 albums between 1972 and 1985
* Finnish: ''Punasulka'', few albums starting from 1976
* French: ''La tribu terrible'', in ''Tintin'' magazine from 1969 until 1990; ''Plume d'oeuf'', in Le Républicain Lorrain (newspaper) from circa 1968 until this day
* German: ''Feuerauge'', 2 albums in 1973, and ''Häuptling Feuerauge'', in ''Zack'' magazine between 1974 and 1980: also the subject of a radio drama in 1977
* Italian: ''La tribù terribile'', in the magazine ''Corriere dei Ragazzi'' in 1974
* Norwegian: ''Rødøye'', secondary recurring strip in ''Billy'' (''Beetle Bailey'' magazine), from 1976
* Portuguese: ''Olho Vermelho'' 1 album in 1971, and ''Touro Sentado'', in ''Gibi'' magazine in 1974 in Brazil
* Spanish: ''Ojo Rojo'' in the magazine ''El Cuco''
* Swedish: ''Rödöga'', 1 album in 1979 with Semic Press, 1 album in 1990 by Carlsen, three pocket books by Carlsen (1976-1978), 1 pocket book by Carlsen/Semic (1988)Rödöga pocket - Seriesam
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References

External links

''Redeye''
at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Archived
from the original on January 5, 2017.

{{King Features Syndicate Comics

1967 comics debuts
2008 comics endings
American comic strips
Gag-a-day comics
Fictional Native American people in comics
American comics characters
Fictional tribal chiefs
Male characters in comics
Comics set in the United States
Western (genre) comics
Comics about anthropomorphic horses
Comics about talking animals