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The comic strip was born, when Charles Sutton, the leader of the Associated Newspapers syndicate contacted Tove Jansson. Jannson's first Moomin books Comet in Moominland (1946) and Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) had already been translated to English and had been successful in the United Kingdom.
Tove Marika Jansson (Fenno-Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtuːve ˈjɑːnsːon] ⓘ; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art ...
The Moominvalley of the Tampere Art Museum is a museum devoted to the original works of Tove Jansson. It contains around 2,000 works. The museum is based on the Moomin books and has many original Moomin illustrations by Tove Jansson. The gem of the collection is a blue five-storey model of the Moominhouse, which had Tove Jansson as one of its ...
Tove Jansson’s Moomin characters may be internationally famous, but a new show in Paris reveals a lesser-known side to the Finnish artist who created them. Little-known life of Moomins creator ...
The Dangerous Journey (Swedish: Den farliga resan) is a children's picture book in the Moomin series by Tove Jansson.It was published in 1977. Tove Jansson takes us on an illustrated and quirky journey through Moominvalley, capturing the impact as seen through the eyes of Susanna. [1]
Vivica Sophia Jansson (born 1962 in Helsinki [1]) is the daughter of cartoonist Lars Jansson and the niece of the famous Finnish writer and painter Tove Jansson.Jansson has worked as a Spanish language teacher, [2] creative/artistic director, chairman, and majority shareholder of Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd, [3] [4] [5] and provided direct oversight together with her father for the 1990 Moomin ...
Moominsummer Madness (Swedish title Farlig midsommar, or "Dangerous Midsummer") is the fifth in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in 1954. The major theme of the novel is theatre, described as an infuriating but ultimately rewarding process. [1] The novel forms the basis of episodes 28–30 in the 1990 TV series.
His siblings included an older sister, writer Tove Jansson, and an older brother, photographer Per Olov Jansson. In 1957, he began working with his sister on the writing of the Moomin comic strip , which he produced single-handedly from 1960 to 1975.