[1] 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 was not replaced, and publication ended as submitted material ran out.

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

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.

Redeye was especially popular in Europe, where it appeared in Tintin magazine between 1969 and 1990[2] and received the 1976 Best Foreign Comical Work Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.