Moominmamma's Maid
Moominmamma's Maid

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781770461437

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Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format. With a maid to help around the house, will the Moomins become respectable? A housekeeping and mother-craft expert named Mrs. Fillyjonk moves in next door to the Moomins. Seeing the state of the Moomin house, she takes action, shaming them into hiring a maid. When Misabel the maid arrives, it’s immediately clear she needs a little cheering up, and since Mrs. Fillyjonk has mysteriously disappeared, the Moomins set about teaching Misabel how to enjoy herself. Life lessons and poignant reminders of the importance of simple pleasures abound in this classic tale from Tove Jansson.

Moomin Book Two
Moomin Book Two

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781897299197

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Includes four comic strips featuring Moomin, a teenage troll who looks like a hippopotamus and passively deals with life's troubles; including "Moomin's Winter Follies," "Moomin Mamma's Maid," "Moomin Builds a House," and "Moomin Begins a New Life."

Moomin Book 1
Moomin Book 1

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1770465480

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The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of world's largest newspaper the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in 40 countries. Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century. The Moomins are a tight-knit family — hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson's Nordic roots. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson's observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.

Welcome to Moominvalley: The Handbook
Welcome to Moominvalley: The Handbook

Author: Amanda Li

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1529055814

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Explore the magical world of Moominvalley in this essential handbook for Moomin fans of all ages – filled with fun facts and fascinating stories about the Moomins and their friends. Based on the acclaimed animated TV series Moominvalley, this guide is packed full of stunning colour illustrations closely based on Tove Jansson’s classic paintings and drawings. Visit the Moomins in their round blue Moominhouse, take a tour of Moominvalley and join in on their astonishing adventures. Welcome to Moominvalley: The Handbook will tell you everything you need to know about the Moomins' history, their personalities, their quirks and their passions. Comprehensive and authoritative, this guide also explains the values that have made the Moomins so well-loved: their kindness and tolerance, their love of adventure, and their fondness for having fun.

Moomin Book 9
Moomin Book 9

Author: Lars Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1770465561

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“[Moomin is] a quirky, original comic strip masterpiece.”—Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season Moomin Book 9: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip welcomes readers back to the beloved world of Moominvalley, where pancakes and jam are a perfectly acceptable supper and a damsel in distress can live in a pre-fabricated castle. The ninth volume of Tove and Lars Jansson’s classic comic strip features the beloved “Fuddler and Married Life” story. Together, the four stories in this collection display the poignancy, whimsy, and philosophical bent that constitute the Moomins’ enduring appeal.

Moomin Book 3
Moomin Book 3

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1770465502

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Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Jansson's observations of everyday life — whimsical but with biting undertones — easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today. This third volume returns to Moominvalley, where its beloved inhabitants get tangled up in five new stories. Moomin falls in love with a damsel in distress, an unseasonably warm spell turns the valley into a tropical rainforest, and a flying saucer crashes into Moominmamma's garden. Moominpappa decides to live out his dream of occupying a lighthouse and writing a great seaside novel, only to discover that he hates the sea so close up and has no interest in writing about it, and a variety of curious clubs spring up in the valley. Moomin and Moominmamma do their level best to avoid the whole mess but, of course, get drawn into the muddle.

Moomin Book 4
Moomin Book 4

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1770465510

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More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artist Drawn & Quarterly’s bestselling Moomin series, created by the legendary children’s author Tove Jansson, is now in its fourth installment. The series is the winner of the Harvey Award and has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards.

Moomin Book 2
Moomin Book 2

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1770465499

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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, childrearing, 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. Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated Moomin chapter books. The Drawn & Quarterly reprint series collects, for the first time in North America, Jansson's internationally syndicated Moomin comic strip that debuted in the London Evening News in 1954.

Moomin Book 10
Moomin Book 10

Author: Lars Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 177046557X

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“Moomin is about freedom, tolerance, and optimism amid frustration, loss, and fear.”—Modern Painters Moomin Book Ten: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip welcomes readers back to the beloved world of Moominvalley, where pancakes and jam are a perfectly acceptable supper and wealthy aunts can be altogether too fierce to handle. The tenth volume of Tove and Lars Jansson’s classic comic strip features the macabre and hilarious “Moomin and the Vampire” and “The Underdeveloped Moomins” story. Together, the four stories in this collection display the poignancy, whimsy, and philosophical bent that constitute the Moomins’ enduring appeal.

The Moomins and the Great Flood
The Moomins and the Great Flood

Author: Tove Jansson

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1770466827

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Moominmamma and Moomintroll need to find a home for the winter, someplace where sun is plentiful and safe from the dangers of the unknown. But before they can settle down, they must cross a dark and sinister forest and find their way through a flood of epic proportions, all the while hoping that they will find Moominpappa again. Their journey seems daunting but they forge ahead, with Moominmamma’s kindness and patience giving Moomin the courage he needs to face the strange, unexplored path that lies ahead of them. Written during the 1939-40 Finnish-Soviet Union conflict, or The Winter War, Jansson uses the unusual setting of a natural catastrophe to provide the background of her first children’s book and the first appearance of her beloved Moomin characters. She wrote this as her escape from the horrors of war and its many consequences, but rather than avoiding the problems that war raises, she uses these as a basis for the many obstacles that the characters face, from separated families to forced displacement. With beautiful black and white artwork interspersed throughout the text and curious, playful prose, you find yourself rooting for the Moomins and their quest to find Moominpappa and a place to call home.