Tag Archive | "Tove Jansson"

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 Troll! [...]

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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 of [...]

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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 books in the [...]

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