Biffen och Bananen (the Beef and the Banana) was a comic strip by Rit-Ola (Jan-Erik Garland), originally published in Folket i Bild in 1936, where it ran until 1978.
[1] The strip was also published in albums and in the Swedish comic book 91:an.
The comic is about two friends, the strong Biffen (based on the heavyweight boxer Harry Dahlgren[2]) and the intelligent Bananen (based on Rit-Ola himself[2]).
Their adventures were often set in or around Stockholm, or on vacation in Africa and southern Europe.
[3] Rit-Ola was given rather loose directions for the comics: he was required to avoid the topics of drunkenness and rape; he was obliged to deliver the strip four to five weeks prior to the publication date; and the comic must be drawn in black, white, and red.