Manfred Schmidt

Manfred Schmidt grew up in Bremen. When he was 14 years old, published his first Comics in the Bremer news and in the Weser-Zeitung. In 1931, he took the New Gymnasium of the high school and decided to be in the film industry, found this but not very productive. He studied at the State art school of Bremen and then worked for the Ullstein publishing house as a Press artist. As a cartoonist, he was soon known. At the beginning of the Second world war, he signed for the Reich Ministry of propaganda, controlled the German characters film GmbH. In 1942, he was drafted for war service and as a military cartographer used. He was a member of a "propaganda-kompanie" of the Waffen-SS or the Wehrmacht. Towards the end of the war, he signed back "jokes" for the army newspaper the tanks Progress as well as Propaganda leaflets, which the morale of the, in Europe, landed U.S. troops to undermine it should be. In the post-war period, he was first in the editorial, for Rowohlt published and by Erich Kästner, published, pacifist magazine penguin busy. After Schmidt had met the Superman Comics, he decided to make a parody of this from him as a primitive and dull perceived narrative form: Nick Knatterton, a detective story in comic book format, was composed in 1950 for the magazine Quick. As a template for the Detective is the embodiment of Sherlock Holmes by Hans Albers served according to his own statement. Nick Knatterton was very filmed successfully, and in Schmidt's own cartoon Studio.