YOU'LL NOT SEE NOTHING LIKE THE MIGHTY MANFRED

"It's all very easy to laugh at yourself," Michael O'Donoghue once said, in his persona as Saturday Night Live's Mr. Mike. "The difficult thing is learning to laugh at others."

In that spirit, welcome to the work of Manfred Deix.

I apologize for cropping off the name of his publisher with my crappy scanner. It's Zweitausendeins, the folks who brought you the original Robert Crumb facsimile sketchbooks. Crumb gets a mention as being "exemplary" in the long interview with Deix at the back.