A continuous series of drawings or pictures illustrating incidents, conversation, etc., as a comic strip.
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Probably from or related to Middle Low German strippe, “strap, thong”; “long, narrow, flat piece,” “narrow piece of cloth,”:
circa mid-fifteenth century.
The Two Of Them
“So here we have another book speaking to Mediterranean marriage, with this same entwined sense of delicacy, humour and light mockery. The book, simply called The Two of Them, by Split painter and cartoonist Tisja Kljaković Braić, consists of ninety (mostly black-and-white) cartoons in which there exist, in principle, but two figures. Namely, The Two of Them: A Wife, a woman of unspecified middle age who is at war with surplus kilograms and the metamorphosis of her own body; and A Man, a guy who is, for much of the book, on the couch in his nether garments (or underpants) watching football …”