Tag Archive | "Tove Jansson"

Moomins in Dundee

Monday, October 4, 2010

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A short while ago we mentioned the new 3D Moomin movie, Moomin and the Comet Chase.  The Discovery Film Festival in Dundee, a festival aimed at promoting international cinema for younger audiences,  is proud to announce the UK premiere of this film on  Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th October 2010. Throughout the weekend there will [...]

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Miguelanxo Prado in Manchester

Monday, September 6, 2010

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The Manchester Literature Festival and the Instituto Cervantes are giving Manchester comics readers a fabulous and rare (for the UK anyway) chance to see the great Spanish artist Miguelanxo Prado in October. It’s not everyday you get a chance to see one of Europe’s best comics artist so if you’re in the area then you [...]

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Moomin Book 5 – a gloriously surreal finale.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Moomin – The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Volume 5 Written by Lars Jansson and drawn by Tove Jansson Drawn & Quarterly This volume of Moomin contains the final three stories to feature Tove Jansson’s artwork. Her brother Lars, the writer of these three stories would subsequently provide both words and pictures, but this is [...]

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New Moomin Movie

Friday, August 20, 2010

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Moomins and the Comet Chase, an all-new 3D animation feature with Finnish novelist and comic strip author Tove Jansson’s adorable ghost-like creatures, debuted earlier this month in Finland, where Jansson lived as a member of the Swedish minority. It’s Finnish animation studio Filmkmompaniet’s second feature with the Moomins.  An earlier movie, Moomin and Midsummer Madness [...]

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Moomins wallpaper! want!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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How wonderful is this? Moomins wallpaper. No, not as in computer wallpaper for your screen, actual wallpaper as in decorating your home. It certainly isn’t cheap going by the prices on this Scandinavian site, but wow, it’s gorgeous! (via Rod McKie’s Twitter)

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Tove Jansson’s Hobbit, Snark & Alice

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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Thanks to Drawn for these – a collection of scans from Tove Janson’s non Moomin work, including Tolkein’s Hobbit and Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland and The Hunting Of The Snark.

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From our continental correspondent – Moomins in Shanghai? or not?

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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We reported  before (see here) how the Smurfs are representing their native Belgium at the World Expo that opened last weekend in Shanghai, China, but luck would have it that a second group of mythical beings makes its appearance there.  Or does it ? (cover to the upcoming fifth volume of complete Moomin comic strips [...]

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Moomins and the Finnish economy

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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The BBC’s Business page has an interesting story up on Tove Jansson’s wonderful Moomins, looking at the success of the brand (especially in Scandinavian countries and Japan, which even has Moomin themed cafes serving Nordic dishes) as well as talking to Sanna Jukantupa at Moomin World, who discusses the appeal of the attraction which takes [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Moomin at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre

Monday, March 8, 2010

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At the Brussels Belgian Comic Strip Centre, a nice little exhibition has been put up about Moomin, Finland’s best known contribution to comics. Originally, creator Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated a series of illustrated novels featuring the white, hippopotamus-like creatures. Over the years though, the world of the Moomins expanded and currently includes television [...]

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Fancy cooking like Moominmamma?

Saturday, January 30, 2010

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Well, from July 2010, you’ll be able to. SelfMadeHero have secured the rights to the Moomins Cookbook: “The Moomins cookbook contains all the secrets to the tasty dishes prepared by the unflappable Moominmamma for the lovely little characters that live in Moominvalley. The recipes are a wonderful introduction to Finnish cuisine, presented by season, and [...]

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Björk singing for the Moomins

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin [...]

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Scary Moonintrolls

Monday, August 3, 2009

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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 [...]

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Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Volume 4

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Volume 4 by Tove Jansson Drawn & Quarterly I genuinely can’t remember if I’ve ever read any Moomin tales before or whether I just know of them in some pop culture generalist knowledge base. I may have read them as a child, picking them up along with Tintin and Asterix [...]

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