[1] Hans G. Kresse, born in the Netherlands in 1921, started his career as a comics artist in 1938 in the scouting magazine De Verkenner.
The comic first appeared in the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, and was later also published in the Netherlands and in Wallonia in French.
[2] During and after those years, Kresse created many one shot comics and contributed numerous illustrations to many Dutch youth magazines.
[2] His second main series, Les Peaux-Rouges, depicting the history of the Native Americans during the Spanish conquests of North America, debuted in 1973.
Published at the famous French language editor Casterman, Kresse worked on it until 1982, when he had to retire due to failing eyesight.