Hello Redfox fans!
I've started this section of my website because I could not find anything on the internet devoted to one of my favorite comic books of all time - REDFOX.
The following information and artwork is a tribute to the comic book series and is in no way to be interpreted as copyright infringement. I put it out here because I could not deal with the idea that such a fine piece of work would vanish into nothing more than a memory. There must be some documentation of this comic book somewhere on the internet. Nobody else is doing it - so I'm going to.
Redfox was an independent comic book put out in the late 1980's in the UK by a comic book artist named Fox. The book was originally published by Harrier Press and then Valkyrie Press. In the US, the comic was pretty much only obtainable by subscription (I subscribed). I'm the proud owner of a pretty near complete set of the comics and still have many of the letters that were sent along with the issues.
Fox (creator of Redfox comics) - if you're out there - contact me! I love your work! I have tried to find other work you did and couldn't. I hope you will be creating more great comic art soon!
The main characters were Redfox, Lyssa the Ax, Ratty and Whitefox.
One of the other things that drove me to putting up some of this information is the similarities between the Redfox concept and Xena Warrior Princess. I'm sure each of the ideas were original ideas but for whatever reason, they developed along similar lines. People who enjoyed Xena's episode "The Bitter Suite" with it's tarot card references will appreciate that the cover of Redfox #4 shows Red and Ratty in front of the tarot cards The Mage and The Fool.
The physical similarities between the two pairs of characters is pretty blatant. However!!!!!!!! If every time someone creates a tall, dark female warrior and a shorter, blonde female warrior as a team and we say it's a Redfox or a Xena copycat, we'll be in a sorry state of affairs. I could just as easily say that Shirley Meier & S.M. Stirling's characters of Megan and Shkai'ra (The Sharpest Edge & The Cage) were reversed XWP or Redfox with their tall, blonde, warrior & shorter, dark, warrior team.
Another incredibly humorous similarity with both these pairs is the romantic relationship was heavily debated. Some things never change!
Is Gabrielle based on Redfox? Is Xena Warrior Princess based on Lyssa The Ax? We'll never know. I'm sure there had to be other stories that were before these with a similar basis.
If we're fans of female warrior fantasy fiction and art we can't go there! So we have to be open to it all!
Additionally, there were Redfox related buttons (I have some). I think that is far as anyone got with merchandising the comics. From my research it appears there was at one time a filk song dedicated to Lyssa the Axe but the lyrics are no longer available on the internet. If anyone knows what they were, I'd be interested.
So please enjoy my very small tribute to the artwork and ingeneous creation of Fox. I would love to see a renaissance of this comic.
A Redfox fan forever !
Absintheangel777
"By the way, I'm known as Lyssa the Axe, Slayer of Men, Vanquisher of Cities, Mercenary Extraordinare!
And I turn out a mean curry too." - Lyssa the Axe
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