Biography of Manfred Schmidt (1913–1999)
- born in 1913
- spent his childhood in Bremen
- after arts and crafts school, he worked as an illustrator and caricaturist for newspapers and magazines, including the Berliner Illustrierte
- after the war, he worked on the Pinguin editing team at Rowohlt
- 1950, start of the daily comic strip Nick Knatterton in Quick magazine
- from 1960, worked as travel journalist and producer of cartoons, including Nick Knatterton
- died in 1999
