Jan-Erik Garland

{{Short description|Swedish cartoonist, journalist and comic creator}}

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Jan-Erik "Rit-Ola" Garland (1905–1988) was a Swedish cartoonist, journalist 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 Biffen och Bananen for the magazine Folket i Bild.

He was born in Stockholm, a son of politician Olof Olsson and Gabriella Hainer, and married Nanny Åström in 1936.{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Harnesk |editor1-first=Paul |year=1962 |title=Garland, Jan-Erik |encyclopedia=Vem är vem? Stor-Stockholm 1962 |location=Stockholm |publisher= |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm62/0454.html |page=430 |language=Swedish | access-date=22 June 2019}}