Simon Gärdenfors

Simon Gärdenfors (born 23 March 1978) is a

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cartoonist,

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, television presenter, and

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.Simon Gardenfors
at Top Shelf Productions, accessed 2010-05-19 His comics are drawn in a round, icon-like style, although their content is often realistic or autobiographical. He has published three

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s, as well as several short pieces for the Swedish comic anthology ''

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''. Gärdenfors is most known for his comic about Per-Olof Svensson, the formerly accused, subsequently acquitted murderer of then Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs

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. 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. The duo received airplay in 2004 with the song "Spökskrivare" ("

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"), claiming that it actually was Gärdenfors who had written all famous hip-hop songs. He is also part of an additional hip-hop project, Far & Son, featuring Frej Larsson of

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. His graphic novel ''The 120 Days of Simon'' (''Simons 120 dagar'') was published in English translation by

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in 2010. In 2008, Gärdenfors hosted a six-episode series on ZTV titled ''The Simon Gärdenfors skräpkultur-show'' (''The Simon Gärdenfors Junk Culture Show''), with each episode focusing on a different category of "junk culture" such as candy wrappers, comics, and pinball. His father,

Peter Gärdenfors Björn ''Peter'' Gärdenfors (born 21 September 1949) is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden. Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize (Swedish: ''Rausingpriset''). He received his doctorate from Lund Univ ...

, is a philosopher and professor of Cognitive Science at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Swedish cartoonists 1978 births Living people {{Sweden-artist-stub