Samuel Nyholm, also known by the acronym Sany, was born in 1973 in Lund, Sweden. He is a graphic designer and artist who currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden, and Bremen, Germany, and is recognized for his figurative drawings. Frequently his sketchy drawings borrow from Danish Pilsner cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s in terms of both their visual language and choice of motif. They vary motivic situations, which are peopled by a handful of fictional characters who keep popping up again and again, as the drawings refer to popular culture’s slapstick genre and play with prejudices and stereotypical simplifications. One particular focus of the cartoons, which sometimes echo the distant style of Saul Steinberg, can be found in the arbitrary character of linguistic and symbolic systems. They often humorously depict scenarios from the world of art, highlighting misunderstandings and misinterpretations and thus pointing to the gap between a symbol and its meaning.