While most of us adored Tove Jansson’s lovely Moomins (and have loved the fine reprints that Draw & Quarterly have been publishing recently), not everyone did – in fact Adam Cadwell confesses that as a child he was more than a little spooked by Tove’s much-loved creations:
“While not a villain in the fictional world of The Moomins, Moominpapa and the rest of his family really used to set me on edge when I was small. It’s hard to describe but something about their vacant, piercing eyes and their emotionless, mouthless faces used to get me extremely worried and paranoid about what their true intentions were. I remember not being able to look away from the TV because I didn’t know what they’d do when my back was turned.”
(Adam’s interpretation of Moominpapa. Specialists in white coats and white socks have been called and will attend to Mr Cadwell in the Home For Bewildered Comics Creators)
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