Tag Archive | "Tove Jansson"

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 [...]

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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 include [...]

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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 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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