Doubtless many readers of The Evening News were confused and intrigued by the rotund bottom of Moomin appearing on the front page of their paper. And the campaign continued, alongside the following items of news: Tuesday 14th September 1954 The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In my last post I mentioned that, prior to the first Moomin strip’s publication, The Evening News ran a teaser campaign in the preceding week. For six days, single panels from Moomin and the Brigands were published on the front[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a little break, it’s time for some more morsels from the Jansson archives. This one is a real beauty – an article about Moomin’s debut in the Evening News. The paper ran a teaser campaign the week before the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of Tove Jansson’s many running gags in Garm was the hijinks of a pair of Scots gentlemen. Resplendent in their sashes and kilts, with a love for single malt whisky, the jokes were unsubtle, culturally insensitive, and generally hilarious.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of the main reasons for the shortfall of posts recently. I’ve been working away on another translation, and something of an unusual one. Long before The Moomins, Lars Jansson had made something of a name for himself[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And here’s the one you’ve been waiting for: Moomin hits Britain, and all those fascinating preliminary sketches.
Here’s part two of my article on Tove Jansson and the genesis of the Moomins, appearing in the Cartoon Club of Great Britain’s monthly magazine, The Jester.
I’ve just recently contributed an article on Tove and the history of the Moomins to The Jester, the monthly magazine of the Cartoon Club of Great Britain. It’s only available to members, but I’m sharing the article here… read on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Tove Jansson started contributing work to a magazine called Garm in 1929. Named for the eponymous hound that guarded the gates of Hell, this Finnish equivalent of Private Eye dripped with satire, political and otherwise.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Perhaps one of the saddest things about the recent surge of interest in Tove Jansson’s paintings is that it came a little too late. All through her life she had craved recognition as an artist, but her work was inevitably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…