Jan-Erik "Rit-Ola" Garland (1905–1988) was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and comic creator. Formerly an athlete, Garland later started to draw editorial cartoons and sports caricatures for several Swedish newspapers. In 1936, he created the

comic a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

Biffen och Bananen ''Biffen och Bananen'' (''the Beef and the Banana'') was a comic strip by Rit-Ola (Jan-Erik Garland), originally published in '' Folket i Bild'' in 1936, where it ran until 1978. Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, a son of politician

Olof Olsson Olof Olsson (31 March 1841 – 12 May 1900) was a prominent Swedish-American Lutheran clergyman who served in several churches in the American Midwest. He was also the third president of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, serving from ...

and Gabriella Hainer, and married Nanny Åström in 1936.

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Rit-Ola info from the Lambiek Comiclopedia of Artists
Swedish bandy players Swedish comics artists Swedish editorial cartoonists Swedish illustrators 1905 births 1988 deaths AIK Bandy players 20th-century Swedish journalists {{cartoonist-stub