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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Two

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Two
By Tove Jansson

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In the second volume of Tove Jansson’s humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble’s mother arrives on the Moomin family’s doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #21789 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-30
  • Released on: 2007-10-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 88 pages

Editorial Reviews

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“A lost treasure now rediscovered—one of the sweetest, strangest comic strips ever drawn or written. A Surrealist masterpiece. Honest.” —Neil Gaiman “[Jansson’s] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive . . . Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, a liberating force.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Moomin is gorgeous, and is flat out the best Moomin book I’ve ever seen. Tove Jansson was a natural cartoonist. These strips are clever, gentle, witty, and completely engrossing.” —Jeff Smith, cartoonist of Bone

About the Author
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was the legendary Finnish children’s book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and television.

Customer Reviews

Utterly Charming Again5
As utterly and completely charming as book one.
I'd read all her books but had never seen these.
I've returned to them often.

Question though: How can they call is The COMPLETE comic strip and release two volumes???

Charming!4
Tove Jansson's Moomin is a delight and a pleasure. The characters are beautifully drawn and interact with complex human emotions, but their stories are told in such a simple way that children can enjoy the book quite easily. This comes HIGHLY recommended.

Fabulous Tove5
I am SO happy that these books are being translated into English at long last! Tove Jansson's writing and drawings are beyond compare. Funny, thoughtful, full of kindness, irreverent, philosophical and exactly what life is like in Finland and Sweden (and I mean that as the biggest compliment)!