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Moomin

The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One

By Tove Jansson

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The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin
 Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the MContinue

The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin
 Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of the world’s largest newspaper, the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in forty countries. Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly’s publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reins to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century.
 The Moomins are a tight-knit family–hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. Jansson’s art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or on rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson’s Nordic roots. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson’s observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.

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  • Moomin Book Four by Tove Jansson

    Moomin Book Four is the latest installment in Drawn and Quarterly’s collected edition of the comic strip which Tove Jansson created in the 1950s for the syndicate British Associated News. It offers readers a chance to visit a comforting cartoon unive ... (read full critics)

    popmatters published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

  • Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Books One and Two

    Pimple, a small dog, wears a muzzle at all times to hide his tragic secret. "He daren't show himself," explains his owner, Misabel, a maid. "He isn't very well turned out." When the two are hired to work at the freewheeling Moomin household, Pimple r ... (read full critics)

    barnesandnoble published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Others 96 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1894937805
  • ISBN-13: 9781894937801
  • Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
  • Pub date: Nov 14, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1935 mm x 1419 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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