Simon Gärdenfors

Simon Gärdenfors (born 1978) is a Swedish cartoonist.He works in a very cute cartoony style, which is almost iconic and naivistic in appearance, which would lead new readers to believe his comics are strictly for children. The subjects he approaches is quite often realistic and naturalistic, though, although he still could retain the same irony that was common in his earlier comics. He has done much work for the Swedish comic anthology "Galago".

He is possibly most famous for his comic about Per-Olof Svensson, the formerly accused (acquitted) murderer of then Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.By a weird twist of fate, shortly in connection to the murder allegations, a short comic in "Galago" was published. According to Gärdenfors, he had met Svensson during a stay in Lund, and included him in his comic as a subject of mythomania. In 2005, Gärdenfors has had his book "Lura mig" (Fool me) published, containing interviews with different people he considers mythomaniacs, and his comments about the media coverage of the event.

Alongside his childhood friend Calle Thörn, he is also a member of the underground hip-hop duo "Las Palmas" that received a lot of airtime on Swedish radio in the fall of 2004, primarily with the song "Spökskrivare" ("Ghostwriter"), claiming that it actually was Simon who had written all famous hip-hop songs.