Mel Casson

Well known artist and illustrator Mel Casson writes and illustrates Redeye. For more than 15 years, he illustrated the strip while prolific cartoonist Bill Yates wrote it. When Yates retired in 1999, Casson began to write the strip as well.

Casson has had five cartoon books published, including his anthology, "Ever Since Adam and Eve." His cartoons have appeared in virtually every national magazine and his drawings appeared in advertisements for IBM, General Electric, Kodak and Black and Decker. He has served on the board of governors of the Newspaper Comics Council and the National Cartoonists Society.

He and his wife, Mary Lee, live in Westport, Conn.