Sam Lay is a Singapore based visual artist, illustrator, and cartoonist. Lay’s practice explores and satirizes our universal experience where the humor of everyday life is celebrated on a level that everyone can enjoy and understand. As a champion of the silent comic or pantomime technique, Lay lets his illustrations deliver the narrative or punchline without the accompanying text or speech of conventional cartoons.

In 2020, Lay created over 200 cartoons as part of The Oddly Sequential project, an initiative to promote the awareness of pantomime cartoons to audiences in Singapore. Now underway with his new project, Life in a Notebook, Lay strikes the creative chemistry between his illustrations and everyday life by incorporating common household objects into his cartoons. He continues to create a visual world that is a little bit familiar, a little bit new, and where everyone is welcome.