Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (Moomin) (1ST ed.) (Spiral Bound)

Name: Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (Moomin) (1ST ed.) (Spiral Bound)
Brand: Drawn & Quarterly
SKU: SPTM-9781894937801
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Biographical Note:
Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children's book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.

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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 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.

Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 07/24/2006 pg. 42 (EAN 9781894937801, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
Booklist 08/01/2006 pg. 60 (EAN 9781894937801, Hardcover)
School Library Journal 11/01/2006 pg. 169 (EAN 9781894937801, Hardcover)
Library Journal 05/15/2007 pg. 74 (EAN 9781894937801, Hardcover)
Booklist 12/01/2007 pg. 32 (EAN 9781894937801, Hardcover)
Wilson Graphic Novels Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781894937801, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Jansson, Tove
Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was born in Helsinki to artist parents. She was to become a celebrated artist, political cartoonist and author, but she is best known as the creator of the Moomins, one of the most successful and beloved children's book series ever written. Inspired by summers spent on the islands off Finland and Sweden, Tove created the unique world of Moominvalley and all its inhabitants. The Moomins and The Great Flood, her first book to feature the Moomins, published in 1945. Tove went on to publish twelve Moomin books between 1945 and 1977, which have sold in their millions and been translated into over forty languages. In the 1950's the Moomins became a successful cartoon strip, which was to feature in newspapers all over the world. As the Moomins' fame grew, they began to appear in television series, plays, films and a varied merchandise program soon followed. Tove also painted throughout her life and wrote novels and short stories, including the acclaimed Summer Book. But the Moomin world was never far away. As Tove said, " You feel a cold wind on your legs when you step outside Moomin Valley, " In 1966, Tove received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her lasting contribution to children's literature.